prosopopeia (ˌprɒsəpəˈpiːə) / noun. Another word for personification. Sometimes, a person isn’t a person. Dolls, mannequins, taxidermy specimens, and the illusions of paradeiola— things that were once alive, and things that live only to mimic the living. Where the spark of real life is missing, another life so often seems to hover just out of reach.
