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Prosopopoeia vs Objectification - What's the difference?

prosopopoeia | objectification |

As nouns the difference between prosopopoeia and objectification

is that prosopopoeia is (rhetoric) personifying a person or object when to an (l) while objectification is the process or manifestation of objectifying (something).

prosopopoeia

English

Alternative forms

* (l) *

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) Personifying a person or object when to an (l).
  • *1872 , Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures , Volume 2? - Page 334:
  • *:Of the prosopopoeia , or personification, there are two kinds; one, when actions and character are attributed to irrational, or even inanimate objects; the other, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.
  • *2013 , Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World , page 4:
  • Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.
  • of an (l).
  • See also

    * (l)

    objectification

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The process or manifestation of objectifying (something).
  • Synonyms

    * reification * thingification