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Meaning of "prosopopeia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROSOPOPEIA

prosopopeia  [ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSOPOPEIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prosopopeia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROSOPOPEIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

prosopopeia

Prosopopoeia

A prosopopoeia is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek roots "prósopon face, person, and poiéin to make, to do". Prosopopoeiae are used mostly to give another perspective on the action being described. For example, in Cicero's Pro Caelio, Cicero speaks as Appius Claudius Caecus, a stern old man. This serves to give the "ancient" perspective on the actions of the plaintiff. Prosopopoeiae can also be used to take some of the load off the communicator by placing an unfavorable point of view on the shoulders of an imaginary stereotype. The audience's reactions are predisposed to go towards this figment rather than the communicator himself. "And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon", from Hey Diddle Diddle and Bye, Baby Bunting This term also refers to a figure of speech in which an animal or inanimate object is ascribed human characteristics or is spoken of in anthropomorphic language. Quintilian writes of the power of this figure of speech to "bring down the gods from heaven, evoke the dead, and give voices to cities and states".

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSOPOPEIA


Bahia
bəˈhiːə
Cassiopeia
ˌkæsɪəˈpiːə
diarrhea
ˌdaɪəˈriːə
epopoeia
ˌɛpəˈpiːə
galleria
ˌɡæləˈriːə
jamahiriya
dʒəˌmɑːhɪˈriːə
Korea
kəˈriːə
mythopoeia
ˌmɪθəʊˈpiːə
onomatopoeia
ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə
Oriya
ɒˈriːə
ossia
əʊˈsiːə
pharmacopoeia
ˌfɑːməkəˈpiːə
pizzeria
ˌpiːtsəˈriːə
prosopopoeia
ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə
rhythmopoeia
ˌrɪðəməˈpiːə
ria
ˈriːə
rupiah
ruːˈpiːə
Shia
ˈʃiːə
Tarpeia
tɑːˈpiːə
tortilla
tɔːˈtiːə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROSOPOPEIA

prosocial
prosodial
prosodian
prosodic
prosodical
prosodically
prosodist
prosody
prosoma
prosomal
prosomata
prosopagnosia
prosopographer
prosopographical
prosopographically
prosopography
prosopon
prosopopeial
prosopopoeia
prosopopoeial

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSOPOPEIA

Algeria
Amaltheia
Aquileia
Arabia
Asia
Australia
Austria
Bahasa Indonesia
Bolivia
Bosnia
buddleia
Bulgaria
California
codeia
Eleia
gorgoneia
Hygeia
Mantineia
Penthesileia
peripeteia

Synonyms and antonyms of prosopopeia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prosopopeia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROSOPOPEIA

Find out the translation of prosopopeia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prosopopeia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prosopopeia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prosopopeia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prosopopeya
570 millions of speakers

English

prosopopeia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prosopopeia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prosopopeia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prosopopeia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prosopopéia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prosopopeia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prosopopée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prosopope
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prosopopeia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prosopopeia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prosopopeia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prosopopeia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prosopopeia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prosopopeia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रॉस्पेपीया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prosopopeia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prosopopea
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prosopopeia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prosopopeia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prosopopeia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prosopopeia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prosopopeia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prosopopeia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prosopopeia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prosopopeia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSOPOPEIA»

The term «prosopopeia» is used very little and occupies the 159.327 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSOPOPEIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prosopopeia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSOPOPEIA»

Discover the use of prosopopeia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prosopopeia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Paul de Man
In this sense prosopopeia gives a mouth, and so a face, to a dead speaker. De Man seems to imply, although he does not explicitly state it, that all language works as a form of prosopopeia. Language is the means by which we construct our ...
Martin McQuillan, 2001
2
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony
De Man identifies the rhetorical figure of prosopopeia as the trope of autobiography, and defines prosopopeia as "the fiction of an apostrophe to an absent, deceased or voiceless entity, which posits the possibility of the latter's reply and ...
Leigh Gilmore, 2001
3
Historicizing Theory
Even if prosopopeia or narrative personification persisted for de Man in a particular poetic text or utterance to look like a “medieval” literary effect, it offered not the epistemological closure or cognitive capsulization long attrib- uted to such a ...
Peter C. Herman, 2012
4
Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique
The force of another rhetorical trope, that of prosopopeia, the giving of a face to an idea, makes it even harder. In his essay on “Autobiography as De-facement,“ de Man notes that “the dominant figure of the epitaphic or autobiographical ...
Martin Jay, 2014
5
The Poetics of Personification
De Man has observed, for example, that a rhetorical apostrophe engenders a prosopopeia because the linguistic structure of the apostrophic utterance assumes or predicates a responsive human consciousness in inanimate objects ( Rhetoric ...
James J. Paxson, 1994
6
Crossroads in Literature and Culture
explanation which shows that prosopopeia creates a space of dialogue where our voice traverses the voices of those who cannot speak: If I never believed that the dead could hear me, and I knew that the dead could not speak, I was ...
Jacek Fabiszak, Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka, Bartosz Wolski, 2012
7
The Textual Sublime: Deconstruction and Its Differences
7 The "figure of prosopopeia,H says de Man, is “the fiction of an apostrophe to an absent, deceased, ot voiceless entity, which posits the possibility of the latter's reply and confers upon it the power of speech." Prosopopeia provides “a mask or  ...
Hugh J. Silverman Gary E. Aylesworth, 1990
8
Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: A Study in Ideology and ...
This prosopopeia, 'which, as the trope of address, is the very figure of the reader and of reading/52 ensures that the tropological frame of the epitaph will remain in tension with its content, its final message. (In the bosom of God, the reward for ...
Suvir Kaul, 1992
9
Deconstruction: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural ...
The walking statue is a redoubled prosopopeia. A statue is a work of art that gives a face to a dead or absent entity — the definition of prosopopeia — in a material very unlike that of the entity, be it granite or bronze in the case of sculpture, or, ...
Jonathan D. Culler, 2003
10
Death's Following:Mediocrity, Dirtiness, Adulthood, ...
The authority on prosopopeia is Paul de Man; one of his essays on the subject, “ Autobiography as De-Facement,” on Wordsworth's Essays upon Epitaphs, is so intense that it tempts disaster to compress it further; nevertheless, here is what I ...
John Limon, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSOPOPEIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prosopopeia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Orlângelo Leal lança livro infantil. Hoje, ele toca no Mercado Central
Depois, o autor escreveu As prosopopeias de Casemiro Coco, sobre um nordestino que vive de pequenas enganações, e Espetacular volante do Malasorte, ... «O POVO Online, Jul 15»
2
Assista ao vídeo com duas supostas aparições do pocong:
... ele próprio termina por se trair ou por manifestar a verdade, quando deixa de lhe interessar a prosopopeia [personificação de objetos ou animais]. É de se ... «UAI, Jul 15»
3
Sortir a 'Polònia' no és fàcil
Seguint la idea tradicional, ser alcadessa té associada una determinada pompa i prosopopeia que Colau no domina ni vol fer-ho. Marc Giró, que intenta ... «EL PAÍS Catalunya, Jun 15»
4
Você sabe usar a prosopopeia?
Prosopopeia (termo que passou por recente reforma ortográfica e não mais recebe acento agudo), de acordo com o Houaiss, é a figura pela qual o orador ou ... «EXAME.com, May 15»
5
Eugenio, una ració de dopamina
Practiquen un art que ens fa passar estones divertides, però no els tractem amb la mateixa prosopopeia que semblen merèixer els practicants d'altres ... «EL PAÍS Catalunya, May 15»
6
Roberto Santos Cunha: ''Ratos no Congresso"
Neste contexto, mais uma prosopopeia da política brasileira, que redundou apenas em discussões partidárias sem qualquer esclarecimento relevante ou ... «Correio do Estado, Apr 15»
7
Corintiano desde criancinha, o soberano São Paulo pode sorrir …
Veja por que'. Que amolecer, que nada! É prosopopeia flácida para acalentar bovino, mais precisamente conversa mole para boi dormir de coirmão sacana. «ESPN.com.br, Apr 15»
8
Com mais de 2 mil canções, Maria da Inglaterra é a prosopopeia da …
Engana-se quem pensa que uma cantora e compositora de mais de 2 mil canções viva repleta de luxo e glamour. Pois é em uma casa simples do Bairro Anita ... «Meionorte.com, Mar 15»
9
Der Tod braucht eine Perücke
PROSOPOPEIA- der Titel könnte abschreckend wirken. Abschreckend, weil er nur von wenigen verstanden werden wird. Das Wort, das aus dem Griechischen ... «haGalil onLine, Mar 15»
10
Janot incorporou Gurgel?
Coalhada de adjetivos e superlativos, a peça acusatória não passará de prosopopeia vulgar. Isso só faz bem aos discursos de encenação de advogados ... «CartaCapital, Dec 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prosopopeia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prosopopeia>. Apr 2024 ».
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