eidolopoeia
English
Noun
eidolopoeia (plural eidolopoeias)
- A rhetorical or literary figure in which a speech is attributed to a deceased, a phantom, an image or an idol.
- 2003, “The Preliminary Exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist”, in George Alexander Kennedy, editor, Progymnasmata: Greek Textbooks of Prose Composition and Rhetoric, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, Footnote 79, page 115.:
- The status of the speaker at the time the speech is imagined as being given is what determines whether it is ethopoeia or eidolopoeia. A speech Heracles might have given while alive is an example of ethopoeia, a speech he might have given after death is an eidolopoeia
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Synonyms
- eidolopeia
- idolopeia
- idolopoeia
Translations
rhetorical figure
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