Giving a thing, an animal, or an abstract idea the actions, feelings, or speech of a person.
In Don Quixote
the generous lion, more restrained than arrogant, paying no heed to childish games or boasts, after looking to one side and the other, turned his back and showed Don Quixote his hindquarters, and with great phlegm and calm lay back down in the cage.
The lion is "generous" and "restrained," pays heed or not to "childish games" and "boasts," and the adjectives give the animal the courtesy and judgment of a gentleman who ignores the challenge.
Part Two: Mirrors, Lions, and Camacho, the narrator, when the lion stands before the gentleman