CAESAR -
What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
Illeism is the practice of referring to oneself in the
3rd person. It is a
literary device that was commonly used by
Shakespeare in his plays, as illustrated above in an excerpt from
Julius Caesar.
The origin of the word comes from the combination of the latin word
ille which means "that one over there" and -ism.