Antiprosopopoeia; or, Anti-Personification
Antiprosopopoeia; or, Anti-Personification
The opposite of Prosopopia; Persons represented as inanimate things
An-ti-pros-o-po-p-ia. This is the name of the former figure with (anti), opposite, prefixed. The name is given to this figure because it is the opposite of the-other: persons being represented as things, instead of things as persons.
2Sa 16:9.-Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse thy lord, the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
A dog does not curse; still less does a dead dog: but the vivid figure is eloquent, and stands for a whole paragraph which would be required to express literally all that the figure implies.