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Personification is giving inatimate objects human qualities. What's it called when humans are given qualities of objects, like a "person shaded with humility"?

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by ThoughtfulOrange on March 4th, 2009
I'm not sure if there's a term for it, there probably is. I would just say it's a metaphor.
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