Literary Term Personification

Personification: a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract concept is given human qualities or said to perform humanlike actions or possess humanlike emotions.

Examples:

The wind softly whispered to the world. (The wind can't whisper, humans can)
The sun smiled down on the people. (The sun can't smile, but human can)


The way I remember what Personification means, is I think of the word Person. When I think of the word person I think of human. Then it makes me remember human charcteristics. Once I remember human characteristics it makes me remember the defintion, inanimated objects having human charcteristics.

This video, the guy gives Pain human traits. In the beginning he is explaining how he let Pain come to his house. He then talks how he let Fate come over for breakfast and gave him a name. Then he is talking to Fate and asking why he gave his heart to Pain. The last thing he talks about Peace, saying he knows him so well. He gave Fate, Pain and Peace human characteristics. In the poem he acts like the three are human that he invited over for a meal.

This video is just explaining what personification is and examples. It even goes farther with giving the us a new word, Anthropomorphism. Saying how people get it confused with personification. Anthropomorphism is animals given human characteristics.