Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PROS-O-PO-PE'IA, or PROS'O-PO-PY, n. [Gr. προσωποποιια; προσωπον, person, and ποιεω, to make.]

A figure in rhetoric by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings, or 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. – Encyc.