A prosopopoeia (Greek: προσωποποιία, /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek roots prósopon "face, person", and poiéin "to make, to do".
Prosopopoeiae are used mostly to give another perspective on the action being described. For example, in Cicero's Pro Caelio, Cicero speaks as Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern old man. This serves to give the "ancient" perspective on the actions of the plaintiff. Prosopopoeiae can also be used to take some of the load off the communicator by placing an unfavorable point of view on the shoulders of an imaginary stereotype. The audience's reactions are predisposed to go towards this figment rather than the communicator himself.
This term also refers to a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is ascribed human characteristics or is spoken of in anthropomorphic language. Quintilian writes of the power of this figure of speech to "bring down the gods from heaven, evoke the dead, and give voices to cities and states" (Institutes of Oratory [see ref.]).
A prosopopoeia (Greek: προσωποποιία, /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as...
in that order. In second place came Sidharth Chand, 13, misspelling "prosopopoeia" as "prosopopoea". In third place came 13-year-old Tia Thomas, misspelling...
and Things), Johnson discusses the recurrence of rhetorical figures of prosopopoeia (an address to a dead or absent person) and anthropomorphism (conferring...
ancestor to Clodia. Cicero assumes the voice of Caecus in a scathing prosopopoeia, where Caecus is incensed at Clodia for associating with Caelius, a member...
BC, Demetrius of Phalerum is the first writer on rhetoric to describe prosopopoeia, which was already a well-established device in rhetoric and literature...
textual criticism The literary trope of the speaking Cross, a form of prosopopoeia, is probably most familiar to readers of English in The Dream of the...
and voice, as well as exercises from the progymnasmata, such as the prosopopoeia, taught theatrical skills. Students would typically analyse Latin and...
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Anthropomorphism is similar to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person). antinatalism A philosophical...
Greek concepts of mimesis (imitative representation using analogies) and prosopopoeia (impersonation or personification), and the Roman concept of persona...
that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire. Prosopopoeia – speaking as another person or object. Pronuntiatio – the delivery of...
of literary devices which may be used to provide consolation include prosopopoeia, wherein an author or speaker may provide a representation of the ongoing...
role as a spokesperson for Democratic voters. To do this, he employed prosopopoeia, telling real life stories of people he had met while campaigning. Shrum...
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in the Elogium Ildefonsi mentions two lost works by Ildefonsus: Liber Prosopopoeia Imbecillitatis Propriae and Opusculum de proprietate personarum Patris...
the federal territories ... In the second part, in which he uses the prosopopoeia of a mock debate between Republicans and the South, Lincoln denies that...
comparisons or hyperbole. Animation and personification, like dense prosopopoeia (personification), are the most effective tools of Fishtian balance between...
expressed as if in the statue's own voice, in the rhetorical device called prosopopoeia; Baldassare Castiglione wrote one of these, in the form of a dramatic...
descriptive framework, by giving the impression that the scene is real. Prosopopoeia can concern a fictional, dead or abstract character who, unlike allegory...
Swine-Snout; gluttony; sloth; etc. Each vice is personified in the manner of a prosopopoeia, and provides an opportunity for the story to introduce various sinners...
he adopts the role of personification of the battle in the manner of prosopopoeia or "fictive speaking" familiar from 5th-century tragedy. Thus she claims;...
musically derived from the hymn. Alison Shell (Autumn 2010). "Hymns and Prosopopoeia: Samuel Crossman's 'My Song Is Love Unknown'". Religion & Literature...
physician and historiographer, from 1625 or 1626. Other poetical works were: Prosopopoeia Hamburgi (1623) Poëmata septentrionalia aliaque nonulla miscellanea (1624)[citation...
this year George Wither, writing under the pen name "Terrae-Filius", Prosopopoeia Britannica Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh Francisco de Quevedo, El Parnasso...
to Cicero's brother, Quintus, but suspected of being an exercise in prosopopoeia by another writer in Imperial times. The epistle presents itself as having...
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