Personafication: A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes. Personafication ius used to make these abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader.
Example: " By far the largest part of the slave know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs."
( Frederick Douglass, pg. 1)
This is an example of personafication because he's comparing the slave to horses. He says that they know , when it's clear that a horse can't think. A horse really do not know that how old they are because they do not have a sence of actually knowing what is going on. On the other hand a slave can think, but their masters do not allow them to know much.
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