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Hyphenation for “prosopopoeia”

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What is the correct hyphenation for “prosopopoeia”? The purpose of hyphenation is to separate a word such as "prosopopoeia" because otherwise it would be too long and would no longer fit on one line. This separation not only saves space it improves the visually flow of the text. This word separation exists in most languages. In English, the word separation of “prosopopoeia” is based on the speech syllables. The separating syllable in linguistics is therefore the smallest group of sounds in the natural flow of speech. As a separator, the classic hyphen is usually used: „prosopopoeia“ ⟶ „prosopopoeia“.

Hyphens are occasionally used to denote syllabification, as in syl-la-bi-fi-ca-tion. Various British and North American dictionaries use an interpunct, sometimes called a "middle dot" or "hyphenation point", for this purpose, as in syl·la·bi·fi·ca·tion. This allows the hyphen to be reserved only for places where a hard hyphen is intended (for example, self-con·scious, un·self-con·scious, long-stand·ing). Similarly, hyphens may be used to indicate how a word is being or should be spelled. For example, W-O-R-D spells "word".

Definitions of "prosopopoeia"

prosopopoeia >> /prəˌsoʊpəˈpiə/

Definition: [noun] A figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified.
Example: To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.

Definition: [noun] A figure of speech in which an imagined or absent person or thing is represented as speaking.
Example: Can one not wager that it is Agnes ‘herself’ come to voice, and the cry the resuscitated irruptive voice of the dead, a true, unexpected prosopopoeia?