Personification is a literary device that gives human qualities like actions, characteristics or feelings to non-human objects or abstract concepts. Some examples provided are attributing a train whistle crying, sunlight dancing, computers being crabby, streets calling a name, and a teddy bear looking sad which are actions or feelings not possible for non-living things but used to describe them vividly.

1. Personification

2. Personification
Makes an object like a car or a sponge
do something a person might do.
Can a car really talk?
Can a sponge really sing?

3. Some more
examples of
personification in
writing-

4. The lonely train whistle
cried in the night.

5. The sunlight danced in
the sky.

6. Our computers are
crabby today.

7. The streets are calling
my name.

8. My teddy bear sat
slumped on my bed
looking sad.