a literary device that takes an abstract quality or spiritual reality and speaks of it in human terms The Book of Proverbs, 3, 16 says of Wisdom, "Long life is in her right hand, in her left are riches and honor " Speaking of wisdom as if it were a human being in personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop&?;ia; as, the floods clap their hands
If you say that someone is the personification of a particular thing or quality, you mean that they are a perfect example of that thing or that they have a lot of that quality. He was usually the personification of kindness
/ attribution of personality to an impersonal thing *England expects every man to do his duty Lord Nelson (A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples, Ross Scaife)
an anthropomorphic figure of speech where the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a non-human form as if it were a person William Blake's "O Rose, thou art sick!" is an example, but not "Oh Rose, you smashed up the Chevy again!"