prosopopoeia

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Over its many seasons of courtship Harrison has come to be the prosopopoeia of all the nation's unease over changing demographics.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2021

Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James

The same thing happened to the Romans, when military success took them out of Italy,—a thing which the author of the prosopopoeia of Fabricius could not explain.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Then I was by him, &c. which he does not think a prosopopoeia, but spoken of a subsisting person.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor