6 Metaphors for personifications

I have elsewhere defined the thing as follows: "Personification is a figure by which, in imagination, we ascribe intelligence and personality to unintelligent beings or abstract qualities.

Personification and periphrasis were their favorite mannerisms: Collins's Odes were largely addressed to abstractions, such as Fear, Pity, Liberty, Mercy and Simplicity.

The one strange personification is the Dew.

c. Personification is a modified metaphor, assigning human attributes to objects, abstract ideas, or the lower animals.

The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative, that personifications, when he dealt with them, became men.

Southey's personifications in this book are so many fine and faultless pictures.

6 Metaphors for  personifications