How To Use Prosopopoeia In A Sentence
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In the short stories, disease and illness are deployed as prosopopoeia, the cruelly indifferent natural forces that control life and death.
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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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
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These stories exercise a powerful hold upon the imagination, even though prosopopoeia plays a role in the visions not markedly different from its role in the genealogies.
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He won a tense duel over first-time participant Sidharth Chand, 12, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, who finally stumbled on " prosopopoeia , " a word describing a type of figure of speech.
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Here the only refuge of our adversaries is to cry up a prosopopoeia (Schlichting.p. 627) But how do they prove it?
Pneumatologia
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The paradoxes of citation and prosopopoeia (speaking for/as others) common to the virtuoso and to the writer are threads that run through chapters six through eight.
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The Old and New Testament, which by a 'prosopopoeia' are here called the 'two witnesses.'
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Can one not wager that it is Agnes ‘herself’ come to voice, and the cry the resuscitated irruptive voice of the dead, a true, unexpected prosopopoeia?
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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
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Thus, when he contemplates the human condition, Johnson turns naturally to prosopopoeia, and much of the grandeur of his prose derives from his frequent recourse to this kind of figurative language.
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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
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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‘Putting on of a face’ leads only to another mask, another prosopopoeia, so that the self is endlessly dislocated backwards in a process of cultural archaeology until he uncovers the archetypal figure of Natural Man.
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Critics also tend to regard the play's action as prompted by an act of prosopopoeia: an old man remembers and his memories somehow conjure the images or the spirits of the dead.
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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
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That Johnson includes extended prosopopoeia in his periodical so as to ‘instruct by pleasing’ may seem too unremarkable to mention, let alone to require discussion.
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The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.
Laws
