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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol..
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
Use eidolopoeia when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Eidolopoeia means (rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a speech is attributed to a deceased person, a phantom, an image or an idol..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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