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 figure prosopopoeia is often but an impotent straining to impart poetic life; but the personification in in his motion is apt and effective.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

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

These prosopopoeia of Wisdom personified are found in much older books.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest