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
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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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 James Legge
The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
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 William Rounseville Alger
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