Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Personification

Personification , noun

[Compare French personnification.]

1.
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. — C. Knight
2.
(Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopoia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Confusion heards his voice. — Milton