a figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman, such as an abstraction, as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities, as in "Death entered the room."

A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. William Blake’s “O Rose, thou art sick!” is one example; Donne’s “Death, be not proud [..]

1755, noun of action from personify. Sense of "embodiment of a quality in a person" is attested from 1807.

When something other than a human being (often an abstract quality) is treated as a human being — as when we speak of blind Justice — it is said to be personified. See also allegor [..]

the attribution to a non-animate thing of human attributes. The thing personified is often an abstract concept (e.g. 'Lust'). Personification is related to allegory, insofar as personificati [..]

A form of metaphor that compares something non-human with something that is human – “Two Sunflowers/Move in the Yellow Room” (William Blake).

a kind of metaphor; endows a thing, a phenomenon or an abstract notion with features peculiar to a human being. The attribution of personal form, nature or characteristic; the representation of a thin [..]

Attributing human characteristics to abstractions such as love, things (for example The trees sighed and moaned in the wind) or animals (for example The hen said to the fox ...).

 A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. Personification offers the writer a way to give the world life and motion by assigning familiar human behaviors and emotions to animals, inanimate objects, and abstract ideas. For example, in Keats’s "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the speaker r [..]

 the endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities Example

the attribution of human qualities or feelings to inanimate objects; a kind of metaphor where human qualities are given to things or abstract ideas

Giving an inanimate object human characteristics in order to create a clearer image of that object, i.e. "The old desk groaned under my weight."

To endow a non-human object with human qualities. Example: Death in “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne.

Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.

noun. 1. in the technique of American psychoanalyst Harry Stack Sullivan, the trend of feelings and outlooks toward another individual stemming from interpersonal relations with them. 2. a figure of s [..]

Figure of speech whereby inanimate objects or abstractions are given human characteristics. In his poem Low Water Ted Hughes uses personification to describe a river e.g. 'She lolls on he [..]

(n) a person who represents an abstract quality(n) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature(n) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

(Lat. persona, "person", and facere, "make") an imaginary person conceived as representing a thing, concept or deity.

attribution of personal characteristics to an impersonal entity. See also: hypostatize.

attributing human characteristics to something that is not human (a thing, an animal, or an abstraction).

A figure of speech in which nonhuman or abstract subjects are given human qualities.

A person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification. ''Adolf Hitler was the personification of anti-Semitism.'' A figure of speech, in which an inanimat [..]

Personification is figurative language that gives human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to animals, non-living objects, or ideas (like things, colors, qualities, even abstract [..]

attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects.

A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. Personification is particularly common in poetry, but it appears in nea [..]

A description that gives human or animal qualities to inanimate objects. Personification is a figure of speech. We as humans can relate more readily to the 'humanised' object, which makes the image more powerful.

The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: "The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze." Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" includes personification.

 – attributing human qualities to a non-human or non-living object