Ethopoeia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ethopoeia is a noun meaning (countable, rhetoric) An instance of this technique.
Meaning
(countable, rhetoric) An instance of this technique.
More Meanings
- (uncountable, rhetoric) 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.
Example Sentences
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.
One of the most elaborate extant examples of this genre is a speech by Libanius, an ethopoeia of Medea as she is about to kill her children.
This is a reference to a type of drama-based pedagogy called ethopoeia, which formed a central component of the humanist grammar school curriculum.
Word Forms
- ethopoeiae
- ethopoeias
- ethopoiia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include prosopopoeia, eidolopoeia, eidolopeia, prosopopeia, pathopoeia, anthropopeia.
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