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 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

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.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

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

Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony