noun
- a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified or an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking or acting
Usage: rhetoric; literary
Examples
- The poet used prosopopoeia to give voice to the wind in her verses.
- In the speech, Justice herself was made to speak through prosopopoeia.
- The author employed prosopopoeia to let the deceased character address the living.
- Classical rhetoric teachers emphasized the power of prosopopoeia in persuasive writing.
- The play featured prosopopoeia when abstract concepts like Love and Death conversed on stage.