• A prosopopoeia (Greek: προσωποποιία, /prɒsoʊpoʊˈpiːə/) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as...
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    controversy Pareidolia – seeing faces in everyday objects Pathetic fallacy Prosopopoeia Speciesism Talking animals in fiction Tashbih Zoomorphism Possibly via...
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    Antithesis Assonance Hyperbole Interrogation Invocation Irony Metaphor Prosopopoeia Conceit The lovers use uscite ('exits') and chiusette ('endings') sometimes...
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  • and Things), Johnson discusses the recurrence of rhetorical figures of prosopopoeia (an address to a dead or absent person) and anthropomorphism (conferring...
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    ancestor to Clodia. Cicero assumes the voice of Caecus in a scathing prosopopoeia, where Caecus is incensed at Clodia for associating with Caelius, a member...
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    BC, Demetrius of Phalerum is the first writer on rhetoric to describe prosopopoeia, which was already a well-established device in rhetoric and literature...
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  • πρόσωπον (prósōpon) aprosopia, diprosopus, prosopography, prosoponym, prosopopoeia, prosopospasm prot- first Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) amphiprotic, antiproton...
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  • role as a spokesperson for Democratic voters. To do this, he employed prosopopoeia, telling real life stories of people he had met while campaigning. Shrum...
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    comes, and the possibility of such a voice though absence is a type of prosopopoeia. In general, Coleridge's poems discuss the cosmic as they long for a...
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  • the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Anthropomorphism is similar to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person). antinatalism A philosophical...
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    and voice, as well as exercises from the progymnasmata, such as the prosopopoeia, taught theatrical skills. Students would typically analyse Latin and...
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    textual criticism The literary trope of the speaking Cross, a form of prosopopoeia, is probably most familiar to readers of English in The Dream of the...
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  • Greek concepts of mimesis (imitative representation using analogies) and prosopopoeia (impersonation or personification), and the Roman concept of persona...
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    that began in ancient Greece and continued during the Roman Empire. Prosopopoeia – speaking as another person or object. Pronuntiatio – the delivery of...
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    the federal territories ... In the second part, in which he uses the prosopopoeia of a mock debate between Republicans and the South, Lincoln denies that...
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    of literary devices which may be used to provide consolation include prosopopoeia, wherein an author or speaker may provide a representation of the ongoing...
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    Կաթողիկէին», Voğb i dimats Katoğikein. The complete title is "Allegorical prosopopoeia on the Holy Cathedral at Vagharshapat" («Բան բարառնական ոդեալ դիմառնաբար...
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  • πρόσωπον (prósōpon) aprosopia, diprosopus, prosopography, prosoponym, prosopopoeia, prosopospasm prot- first Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) amphiprotic, antiproton...
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    in the Elogium Ildefonsi mentions two lost works by Ildefonsus: Liber Prosopopoeia Imbecillitatis Propriae and Opusculum de proprietate personarum Patris...
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    musically derived from the hymn. Alison Shell (Autumn 2010). "Hymns and Prosopopoeia: Samuel Crossman's 'My Song Is Love Unknown'". Religion & Literature...
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    expressed as if in the statue's own voice, in the rhetorical device called prosopopoeia; Baldassare Castiglione wrote one of these, in the form of a dramatic...
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    in that order. In second place came Sidharth Chand, 13, misspelling "prosopopoeia" as "prosopopoea". In third place came 13-year-old Tia Thomas, misspelling...
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    comparisons or hyperbole. Animation and personification, like dense prosopopoeia (personification), are the most effective tools of Fishtian balance between...
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    he adopts the role of personification of the battle in the manner of prosopopoeia or "fictive speaking" familiar from 5th-century tragedy. Thus she claims;...
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    Swine-Snout; gluttony; sloth; etc. Each vice is personified in the manner of a prosopopoeia, and provides an opportunity for the story to introduce various sinners...
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    descriptive framework, by giving the impression that the scene is real. Prosopopoeia can concern a fictional, dead or abstract character who, unlike allegory...
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  • this year George Wither, writing under the pen name "Terrae-Filius", Prosopopoeia Britannica Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh Francisco de Quevedo, El Parnasso...
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  • physician and historiographer, from 1625 or 1626. Other poetical works were: Prosopopoeia Hamburgi (1623) Poëmata septentrionalia aliaque nonulla miscellanea (1624)[citation...
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    Soulja Boy "Ocean Mobb" feat. Waka Flocka Flame Tracking The Color Bars Prosopopoeia Mastering 2012 Kofi Black Love Sick Mastering Torion Sellers The Initiation...
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  • to Cicero's brother, Quintus, but suspected of being an exercise in prosopopoeia by another writer in Imperial times. The epistle presents itself as having...
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