prosopopoeia in English
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1
a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified.
To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia , and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
2
a figure of speech in which an imagined or absent person or thing is represented as speaking.
Can one not wager that it is Agnes ‘herself’ come to voice, and the cry the resuscitated irruptive voice of the dead, a true, unexpected prosopopoeia ?
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1. As opposed to "Apostrophizing," where the character breaks off to address someone or something directly, and the person or thing addressed might not be alive or present? For what it's worth, prosopopoeia is usually Latinized into "personification." In American classrooms, anyway