prosopopeia. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

prosopopeia

SYLLABICATION:	pro·so·po·pe·ia
PRONUNCIATION:	pr-sp-p
VARIANT FORMS:	also pro·so·po·poe·ia
NOUN:	1. A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking. 2. See personification (sense 3).
ETYMOLOGY:	Latin prospopoeia, from Greek prospopoii : prospon, face, mask, dramatic character ( pros-, pros- + pon, face, from ps, p-, eye; see ok^w- in Appendix I) + poiein, to make; see k^wei-² in Appendix I.


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