Personification
Personification gives abstract and inanimate things attributes that are generally considered human characteristics.It can be conveyed for example throught the use of pronouns or possesive adjectives that usually refer to people or throught reference to actions or feelings that we would not normally associate with inanimate objects or natural phenomena.As we shall see later on, in Wordsworth's poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' for example,the speaker describes daffodils 'dancing in the breeze'.We know that flowers do not literally dance,but the verb conveyes well the fluency of the daffodils'movements
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