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Prosopopoeia vs Personification - What's the difference?

prosopopoeia | personification |

As nouns the difference between prosopopoeia and personification

is that prosopopoeia is personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience while personification is a person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.

prosopopoeia

English

Alternative forms

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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)

    personification

    English

    (wikipedia personification)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
    • Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.
  • A figure of speech,in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
    • The writer used personification to convey her ideas.
  • An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human
    • The Grim Reaper is a personification of death.