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PROSOPOPOEIA

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

• PROSOPOPOEIA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

prosopopoeia; personification

Hypernyms ("prosopopoeia" is a kind of...):

figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)

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