Personification

Personification is a metaphorical representation, common to literary texts,

whereby nonhuman objects are ascribed human attributes or qualities. For
example, Out of the fifty odd men left, only about thirty would be required
to unload the Russian ship, big as she was (BNC, B3J). In this case, the ship
is referenced with the female pronoun she, despite the fact that in English
inanimate objects are not gendered.
Personification can express abstract nouns in human terms, for example, One
thing of which capitalism has always been proud, is that it can in a literal
sense deliver the goods (BNC, CDW).