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A poet endowing animals, objects, or abstract ideas with human characteristics is using the figure of speech called _____.

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The most likely answer is personification. However, if said poet addresses such phenomena directly as to another human, or in a manner of dialogue, they use a type of personification known as anthropomorphism.
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