prosopopeia also prosopopoeia (pruh-so-puh-PEE-uh) noun

   1. A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is
      represented as speaking.

   2. A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are
      endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human
      form. Personification.

[Latin prosopopoeia, from Greek prosopopoiia : prosopon, face, mask,
dramatic character : pros-, pros- + opon, face (from ops, eye) + poiein,
to make.]

   "This is not theft, but kidnapping, summoning, prosopopoeia. In Eliot's
   earlier poem we still have one foot in another poet's hell. Here, Dante
   is summoned to the City of London, his lines marauded, his inferno woven
   within another of Eliot's own making."
   Joseph Dinunzio, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917,
   The Review of English Studies, Aug 1998.

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islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. -John Muir, naturalist,
explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

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