A sentence or figure of speech in which an animal, inanimate object or abstract concept is given human qualities or said to perform humanlike actions or possess humanlike emotions.
Personification depends much on a vivid imagination and is adapted especially to poetical composition. It has two distinguishable forms: (1) when personality is ascribed to the inanimate and (2) when some quality of life is attributed to the inanimate; as, a smiling Sun ; daning tree; etc
A tree is dancing After a night the Sun smile at the Tree
One refers to the practice of giving an actual personality to an abstraction. This practice has its origins in animism and ancient religion, and it is called 'personification' by modern theorists of religion. PERSON İ F İ CAT İ ON İ n the past
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
. Most people use personification in everyday language, without really thinking about it, and have read it or heard it thousands of times. This figure of speech is popular because it is effective, and it is easily understood, and personification of these properties are used in many areas
Goldilocks and the three bears Little Red Riding Hood
My Town The leaves on the ground danced in the wind The brook sang merrily as it went on its way. The fence posts gossiped and watched cars go by which winked at each other just to say hi. The traffic lights yelled, ”Stop, slow, go!” The tires gripped the road as if clinging to life. Stars in the sky blinked and winked out While the hail was as sharp as a knife
The heartbeat of America. (Chevrolet cars) Kleenex says bless you. (Kleenex facial tissues) In fact, it's hard to imagine what advertising would be like without the figure of personification.
Shewolfnative: Dance Me Like Daisy Oh to dance like daisies do on wind that’s thrash or thrill to sway in sigh and sough yet grounded firmly in god’s will to wear broad hat of petal’d brim and swing my arms oaut in the rain to smile at blue and breezy whim to reach, to draw, without restrain oh let me be a garden’s frill unhanded by another’s gain