Entertainment / Literature / Prosopopoeia: A form of personification in which an inanimate object gains the ability to speak. For instance, in the Anglo-Saxon poem, 'The Dream of the Rood,' the wooden cross verbally describes the death of Christ from its own perspective. Ecocritical writers might describe clearcutting from the viewpoint of the tree, and so on. See personification, above. (Grk prosopon, 'face')
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