Meanings of prosopopoeia in English

Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.

And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?

Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.

The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.

Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.

Diderot perceived it; I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.

One is reminded here of Pascal's famous prosopopoeia: I know not who has put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor myself.

And this, when one addresses inanimate things, is a figure which is called by rhetoricians, Prosopopoeia, and the Poets often use it.