A figure of speech in which lifeless objects or ideas are given imaginary life -

Personification:
A figure of speech in which lifeless objects or ideas are given imaginary life.

Examples:
And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips
Bidding adieu.
(Keats: ''Ode on Melancholy'')
Here “Joy'' has been imagined as a living person.
''There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail:
(Tennyson: ''Ulysses'')
The vessel has been used as a living being.