prosopopoeia

Meaning

1. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.
2. (countable, uncountable) The personification of an abstraction.

Synonyms

personification

Translations

prosopopea

personificació

prosopopeia

personnification

personificação

prosopopeia

التّشخيص

prosopopeya

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˌsəʊpəˈpiːə/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”). By surface analysis, prosopo- + -poeia.