Antiprosopopoeia: Definition & Examples
Antiprosopopoeia (etymologically derives from Greek, literally “the giving of a face”), is a figure which consists in the representation of a person or part of a human body as inanimate object or prosthetic stage property.
A Notable Example of Antiprosopopoeia
In the following poetic lines, excerpted from William Wadsworth's Daffodils, the cloud and the daffodils both refer to human beings:
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils …”— (Gregory T. Howard, Dictionary of Rhetorical Terms)
