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Its def. of prosopopeia sent me to its listing for personification, and I think this helps clarify pretty well:

A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as in Hunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called: prosopopeia


What's with the 'also called'? Have I lost it completely this Friday afternoon or are the two spellings the same?

Or are we talking about a missing diaresis here (and to heck with the umlauts)?