English Explanatory Dictionary

ethopoeia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. An instance of this technique.

Word forms

ethopoeia ethopoeiae ethopoeias ethopoiia

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἠθοποιία (ēthopoiía). Equivalent to etho- + -poeia.

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