The Wind
James Stephens
The wind stood up, and gave a shout:
He whistled on his fingers, and
Kicked the withered leaves about,
And thumped the branches with his hand,
And said he'd kill, and kill, and kill:
And so he will! And so he will!
The figure of speech in which an animal, object,
or idea is given the characteristics of a person, as we
see in the poem, is: