Personification

Definition: The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.


Example:

Games

Chipmunks chatter and scurry,
Blue jays scream and scold.
Robins talk and gossip
demanding their story to be told.
Squirrels skip and box one another
and rabbits play hop scotch.
The games they play, the sounds they make
Really are top notch.


Significance: Personification is when you make an object a human.