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pro·so·po·poeia (prō sō′pō pē′ə)

noun

  1. a figure in which an absent, dead, or imaginary person is represented as speaking
  2. personification (sense )

Etymology: L < Gr prosōpopoiia < prosōpon, person, face, mask (< pros, near + ōps, eye) + poiein, to make: see poet

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