📚 noun • entry_id 59245
ethopoeia
Meanings (ES + gloss)
etopeya
A rhetorical technique in which the speaker or author presents an imaginary speech by a real person, portraying that person's known characteristics and propensities.
In ancient narrative literature, ethopoeia is a frequently used literary tool.
The situation envisioned is the contest for a prize described in Herodotus 8.123 and cast in the form of ethopoeia.
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