Poetry Terms: Personification

Definition A figure  of speech's family. Metaphor's family. Describe an object or animal is spoken as if it is a person's feelings, thoughts or attitude.
Example

The leaves on the ground danced in the wind

The brook sang merrily as it went on its way.

The fence posts gossiped and watched cars go by

which winked at each other just to say hi.

The traffic lights yelled, ”Stop, slow, go!”

The tires gripped the road as if clinging to life.

Stars in the sky blinked and winked out

While the hail was as sharp as a knife.

~"My Town"

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Significance Easy, to describe an object or/and an animal more descriptively without dead/ennui words. Like this,