Personification

Definition: A figurative language that gives human traits to a non-living thing. (Looks, feelings, action, etc.)




Example:


"The stars danced playfully in 


the moonlit sky."


"
The run down house appeared depressed."




Significance: Personification gives interesting details to 


non-living things. For example, "time passed by like a shark."


That's why people talk about non-living like they talk about a 


real person.