personification

Examples
O beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
—Iago in Shakespeare's Othello 3.3.165-67

The insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life
—Samuel Johnson

Related Figures

prosopopoeia
ethopoeia
antiprosopopoeia
enargia

	*the counterfait in personation*
	Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities. The English term for prosopopeia or ethopoeia.
	Examples O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. —Iago in Shakespeare's Othello 3.3.165-67 The insatiable hunger for imagination preys upon human life —Samuel Johnson Related Figures prosopopoeia ethopoeia antiprosopopoeia enargia See Also ethos Progymnasmata: Impersonation Sources: Quintilian 9.2.36; Peacham (1577) O3r ("prosopeia"); Putt. (1589) 246 ("prosopopeia," "the counterfait in personation"); Day 1599 90 ("prosopopoeia")