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PROSOPOPOEIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prosopopoeia mean?
• PROSOPOPOEIA (noun)
The noun PROSOPOPOEIA has 1 sense:
1. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Familiarity information: PROSOPOPOEIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
personification; prosopopoeia
Hypernyms ("prosopopoeia" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
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