Definition of "prosopopoeia" []

• Personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience. (noun)
• Personification of an abstraction. (noun)

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• "The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it."
• "The Old and New Testament, which by a 'prosopopoeia' are here called the 'two witnesses.'"
• "Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia."