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prosopopoeia

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Noun — An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.

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

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