Giving a thing, an animal, or an abstract idea actions, feelings, or speech proper to a person.
In the Iliad
she, small at first, arms herself, but then sets her head in the sky and walks on the earth;
Strife is described as a person who "arms herself" and "walks upon the earth," and her growth is narrated like that of a giant. Giving body to an abstraction makes visible the speed with which the conflict spreads after the arrow.
Book IV: The Truce Broken, the narrator
but, like the stele that stands firm over the grave of a dead man or woman, so they stood still, holding the splendid chariot, with their heads planted in the ground; and hot tears ran from their eyelids to the ground as they wept, out of longing for their charioteer.
Book XVII: The Fight over Patroclus' Body, the narrator
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