prosopopoeia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pros=o=po=poe=ia

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prosopopoeia, n. the rhetorical introduction of a pretended speaker or the personification of an abstract thing.

Etymology

L f. Gk prosopopoiia f. prosopon person + poieo make

ROGET THESAURUS

prosopopoeia

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.