prosopopoeia

• Figura retórica por la que se atribuyen cualidades humanas, como la voz o la personalidad, a objetos inanimados, animales, ideas abstractas o personas ausentes o muertas. También se refiere a la personificación de una idea o abstracción, y a veces a la prosopopeya como tropo similar a la personificación.

A rhetorical device in which an abstract quality, idea, or inanimate object is represented as a person or creature.

1. PersonificationC2formal

   A rhetorical device in which an abstract quality, idea, or inanimate object is represented as a person or living being.

   Prosopopeya

   • In the poem, 'Death' is given a voice and a scythe, a classic example of prosopopoeia.
   • The author uses prosopopoeia when she writes, 'The wind whispered through the trees.'
   • 'Justice is blind' is a common phrase that employs prosopopoeia.

   Sinónimospersonification