Personification: A figure of speech in which human attributes
are given to an animal, an object, or a concept.
Ex: When Keats describes autumn as a harvester “sitting careless on a granary floor” or “on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,” he is personifying a season. Also, in the Dickinson poem mentioned earlier, Dickinson describes frost as a “blond assassin.” As a result, she is personifying frost.