Personification entails awarding behaviors often done by humans to inanimate objects (or animals). Since these do not act like "persons", authors use creative license to make these inanimate things act in a way that is more relatable to the reader. One of the examples found in the story is: those ancient night cabs which, as though they were ashamed to show their shabbiness during the day, are never seen round Paris until after dark. This...
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