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
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 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
These prosopopoeia of Wisdom personified are found in much older books.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
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
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