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personificação catalão
prosopopeia Synonyms
Examples for "personification"
Examples for "personification"
1
The personification of the Moral Law in Almighty God; the higher Faith.
2
By the boldest personification, he speaks continually in the name of God.
3
This habit of personification grows in the Indian mind with advancing years.
4
Rarely mentioned Celtic personification of the goddess of the woods and foliage.
5
He knew him to be the personification of craftiness, and of daring.
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Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.
2
And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?
3
Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
4
The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.
5
Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.
6
Diderot perceived it; I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.
7
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.
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And this, when one addresses inanimate things, is a figure which is called by rhetoricians, Prosopopoeia, and the Poets often use it.