Personification

Defintion:
Personification gives human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-human things.

Example:Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
-"fear" and "faith" both had human traits in this sentence.

Significance:

Personification is important because it's easy for writers to describe something non-human and have the readers to understand their idea through imagining that it has similar qualities as them.