Personification

definition: the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

example:Hey diddle, Diddle,

Sentence:Consider the vulgarity of objectification. Personification must be its opposite: imagining that even an ash tray is worried about second hand smoke is the very stepping beyond the present and into the fantastic and literary that poetry promises.
Authors use personification to make stories/ poems more dramatic and interesting or to convey a certain mood. Personification also helps us to relate more to the object or idea that is being personified because it is easier for us to relate to something with human attributes.
Basically, personification is an inanimate object doing something that only an organism can do. ex. The rival flower (inanimate object) slowly pulled out his gun. (flowers don't have hands or guns!)
another example would be, The flowers are dancing in the wind.