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prosopopoeia (en)

a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified OR an imagined or absent person or thing is represented as speaking (literally, "mask-making")

The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)

The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)

The Great Regression
by Heinrich Geiselberger (editor)


ideological prosopopoeia is having a heyday: the markets have started to talk again as living persons, expressing their 'worry' at what will happen if the elections fail to produce a government with a mandate to continue with the programme of fiscal austerity

—p.186 The populist temptation (185) by Slavoj Žižek
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