personification

A rhetorical device where a non-human or abstract subject is given human attributes, actions, or agency — 'the news was waiting for me,' 'tragedy struck the town,' 'your eyes give you away,' 'the hills wear spring.' Productive across descriptive prose, literary style, and set idioms. In Japanese it often appears where English would reach for a human subject, so it's worth flagging when it shapes a sentence's effect.