Concept in Definition ABC

Probably due to its name this concept does not sound so common to us, however, it is one of the figures rhetorical or literary that we apply the most in our sayings and one of those that we find most obviously at the request of the literature.

The prosopopoeia consists in attributing to those objects and things that have no life or that have a character abstract, characteristics, actions and even qualities of people or beings with life.

Moreover, the word is also applied when it is wanted to warn that a person presents a lack of naturalness in excess at the time of expressing itself. That is, when someone speaks very difficult or very solemn before an audience that does not correspond or that could not capture the way in which it is expressed.

The literary figures or rhetoric are not common ways of using the words of our alphabet, that is, we use those words for their original meanings, However, if they are read, some singularities of the phonetic, grammatical or semantic type are added and then they end up giving them a hyper spin. expressive.

By case is that rhetorical figures abound in space literary, being practically a distinctive element.
Now, this does not mean that they are also widely used in the languagecolloquial, especially, with the case that concerns us, that of the prosopopoeia, a literary figure that in ordinary language has a great acceptance.

This type of figure is grouped into two large groups, on the one hand the diction figures which are those in which the forms of the words are affected, and on the other hand the figures of thoughtin which it is thought that is affected. It is to this last group and to the subdivision of fictional figures that the prosopopoeia belongs.
Fictional figures are precisely those that allow rather fantastic situations to be presented as real.
It is worth noting that prosopopoeia is also called personification.