prosopopoeia

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

Where others would say “I don’t want to talk in my husband’s place”, she said something I’ve never heard anyone else say: “I don’t like prosopopoeia.”

The want of scenery is sometimes supplied by a very unclassical figure, which, just the reverse of the prosopopoeia or personification of grammarians, considers persons to represent things.

Phædrus evidently confounds them with tales; and Gay, both with tales and allegorical prosopopoeias.

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