prosopopoeia

• “The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.”

  Laws

• “The Old and New Testament, which by a 'prosopopoeia' are here called the 'two witnesses.”

  The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “In my opinion, little honour is due to such as are mere lookers-on, liberal of their eyes, and of their crowns, and hide their silver; scratching their head with one finger like grumbling puppies, gaping at the flies like tithe calves; clapping down their ears like Arcadian asses at the melody of musicians, who with their very countenances in the depth of silence express their consent to the prosopopoeia.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “De Man called this biographical trope personification, prosopopoeia, literally "giving face" to an inanimate collection of words, transforming them into the features of a human life.”

  The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur

• “Dozens of refinements on standard descriptions hold meaning for ut pictura poesis but the matter is complicated since many medi - eval and Renaissance rhetoricians are in conflict over both definitions and examples for descriptio, charac - terismus, effictio, mimesis, notatio, informatio, diatypo - sis, prosopographia, prosopopoeia, and many other categories that demand varying amounts of formed concrete detail.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Here the only refuge of our adversaries is to cry up a prosopopoeia (Schlichting.p. 627) But how do they prove it?”

  Pneumatologia

• “They say (Schlichting.p. 610) "That the Holy Ghost is here introduced as a person by a prosopopoeia, -- that the distribution of the gifts mentioned is ascribed unto him by a metaphor; and by the same or another metaphor he is said to have a will, or to act as he will.”

  Pneumatologia

• “So the heavens and the earth are said to "hear," and the fields, with the trees of the forest, to "sing" and "clap their hands," by a prosopopoeia.”

  Pneumatologia

• “Geoffrey teaches how to praise, blame, and ridicule; he gives models of good prosopopoeias; prosopopoeias for times of happiness: an apostrophe to England governed by Richard Coeur-de-Lion (we know how well he governed); prosopopoeia for times of sorrow: an apostrophe to England, whose sovereign (this same Richard) has been killed on a certain Friday:”

  A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance

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