Giving a thing, an animal, or an abstract idea actions, feelings, or speech proper to a person.
In Dom Casmurro
then Hope, to fight Terror, whispered to my heart, not these words, for it articulated nothing like words, but an idea that could be rendered by them: "Mama's dead, the seminary is over."
Hope and Terror appear as two people in conflict, and Hope "whispers to the heart" the thought, so that the forbidden desire seems to come from outside Bentinho.
Chapters LXVI to LXXVII: Escobar's Visit and the Horseman, the narrator