Question

What is personification

Answer 1

Personification is giving human qualities to inhumane objects (and sometimes creatures / animals). It is a type of figurative language.

Example: "The car coughed up a big cloud of smoke." Cars cannot cough in the way that humans do, but we are giving a human characteristic to the car in order to describe the way that the car expelled smoke.

Answer 2

Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human. Personification is a common form of metaphor in that human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. This allows writers to create life and motion within inanimate objects, animals, and even abstract ideas by assigning them recognizable human behaviors and emotions.