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

Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

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

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