D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Personification

/pẽrs-änˌ-əf-ək-āsh'-ən/ · Per·son·i·fi·ca·tion · IPA /pɚˌsɑ.nə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
01 n. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
  1. 1.
    The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
  2. 2.
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopœia; as, the floods clap their hands.(Rhet.)