Personification

 

What Is Personification?

Personification is a figure of speech that is used to attribute human characteristics to something that is not human. It can also be used to personify an abstract quality.

Personification, according to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, is defined as “the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature; an object, quality, etc. that is represented in this way.” The Cambridge Dictionary defines personification as “the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human.”

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, personification is defined as the “representation of a thing or abstraction as a person or by the human form.” Personification is defined as “the attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas, etc., as for literary or artistic effect”, and “the representation of an abstract quality or idea in the form of a person, creature, etc., as in art and literature”, according to the Collins Dictionary.