Hint: Personification is a figure of speech in which a concept or object is granted human characteristics and emotions, or is spoken of as though it were a person.
Complete answer:
A personification is a form of metaphor in which nonhuman objects are given human characteristics. By assigning identifiable human actions to inanimate objects, animals, and even abstract concepts, writers may give them life and motion.
As an anthropomorphic metaphor, personification is a figure of speech that happens when a thing or abstraction is portrayed as a person in literature or art. The form of personification mentioned here excludes passing literary effects like "Shadows hold their breath," and encompasses instances in which a personification appears as a character in literature or a human figure in art. Personification enables authors to give inanimate objects, animals, and even abstract concepts existence and motion by imbuing them with identifiable human actions and emotions.
An example of personification of wind is: The wind leapt through the open window and scattered across the tile floor.
Another example of the personification of wind is the poem “wind” by Subramania Bharati in which the poet talks to the wind and describes the power of wind as destructive.
“Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
There, look what you did — you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again.
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.”
------- Subramania Bharati
Note: In children's literature, personification is a popular literary device. Since personification depends on the reader's imagination to comprehend, this is an efficient use of figurative words. Of course, readers understand that nonhuman things cannot feel, act, or think in the same way that humans do.
