Prosopopoeia

Alternative forms

• prosopopeia
• prosopopÅ“ia

Origin

From Ancient Greek προσωποποιία ("dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters").

Full definition of prosopopoeia

Noun

1. (rhetoric) Personifying a person or object when communicate to an audience.
• 1872, Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, Volume 2‎ - Page 334:Of the prosopopoeia, or personification, there are two kinds; one, when actions and character are attributed to irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.
2. personification of an abstraction.