prosopopoeia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — Of the prosopopœia or personification, there are two kinds: one when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the others, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.
  2. The personification of an abstraction. countable,uncountable

词形变化

prosopopoeias plural prosopopoeiae plural prosopopeia alternative prosopopœia alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
prosopopoeial
相关词
prosopopesis anthropomorphism

词源

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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