Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Prosopopoeia
‖
Prosˊo-po-pœ′ia
,Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK];
πρόσωπον
a face, a person + [GREEK] to make.] (Rhet.)
A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.