Prosopopoeiaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• prosopopeia, prosopopœia

語源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προσωποποιία (prosōpopoiía, “dramatization, the putting of speeches into the mouths of characters”). By surface analysis, prosopo- +‎ -poeia.

発音

• IPA: /pɹəˌsəʊpəˈpiːə/

名詞

prosopopoeia (countable and uncountable, plural prosopopoeias or prosopopoeiae)

1. (rhetoric) An act of personifying a person or object when communicating to an audience; a figure of speech involving this.
   • 1819 January, Thomas Hartwell Horne, “An introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures”, in The Eclectic Review‎, page 35:

     Of the prosopopœia or personification, there are two kinds: one when action and character are attributed to fictitious, irrational, or even inanimate objects; the others, when a probable but fictitious speech is assigned to a real character.

   • 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Prosopopoeia.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 23:

     Prosopopœia a new person feigns,
     And to inanimates speech and actions deigns.

   • 2013, Graham Harvey, Animism: Respecting the Living World, page 4:

     Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry, where trees, mountains, and streams are personified, and the inanimate parts of nature acquire sentiment and passion.

2. The personification of an abstraction.

派生語

関連する語

• prosopopesis

参考

• anthropomorphism