prosopopoeia
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prosopopoeia /ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə/
▶noun a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified or an imagined or absent person is represented as speaking.
– origin C16: via L. from Gk prosōpopoiia, from prosōpon ‘person’ + poiein ‘to make’.
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