http://wordie.org/words/prosopop%C3%A9e Comments for the word 'Prosopopée' http://wordie.org/ http://wordie.org/words/prosopop%C3%A9e#comments Figure in rhetoric that gives the floor to an absent person, animal or inanimate beings (nature, time). Figure introduced in speech that is a person dead, absent or feint, an inanimate thing he personifies, it does speak or act; (Rare) Speech vehement and emphatic. It is sometimes to say a dead animal, something personified. It generates a complete metamorphosis of the world, enabling better attention by the reader who has more references, thus persuaded more easily. It is a personification of the <a href="/words/hypernym">hypernym</a>. Ex. Charles Baudelaire: <br />I am the author of a pipe; <br />You see, to contemplate my mine <br />On Abyssinian or Cafrine, <br />That my master is a heavy smoker. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:27:17 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/prosopop%C3%A9e#comments