Category:Prosopopoeia

Pros`o*po*poe"ia, n. Etym: [l., fr. Gr. (rhet.)

Defn: a figure by which things are represented as persons, or by Which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a Figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a Deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes Personification, but is more extensive in its signification.