Giving a thing, an animal or an abstract idea the actions, feelings or speech of a person.
In White Nights
I said I could not live with my grandmother, that I would run away from her, that I did not want to be pinned with a pin, and that, if he wanted, I would go with him to Moscow, because I could not live without him. Shame, love, pride, everything spoke in me at the same time
“Everything spoke in me” makes shame, love and pride into voices that speak at once. The image shows Nastenka divided and without control over what she feels at that moment.