Category:Personification

Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [cf. F. personnification.]

1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight.

2. (rhet.)

Defn: a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract Idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; Prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "confusion heards his Voice." Milton.