| This short speech contains such diverse figures of speech as prosopopeia, chiasmus, anadiplosis and polyptoton, which an early modern schoolboy would like to show off. |
| The reader is portrayed as cutting through the dead sign to extract meaning and restore the textual subject's voice, a process that resembles notions of prosopopeia. |
| He appears to be especially fascinated with prosopopeia or personificatio. |
| Yet isn't prosopopeia a rhetorical device that is found, as a matter of course, in all poetry? |
| In chapter 8, he discusses the resurrection impulse of prosopopeia and the Lazarus theme, with reference to essays by de Man and Derrida. |
