Anthropomorphism

• Anthropomorphism is the allocation of human emotions, characterisitics or aims, to other life forms, such as wild or domestic animals.

Personification

• Personification is the allocation of human form, characteristics or aims to theoretical ideas, such as weather, seasons, nations, forces in nature or emotions.

Use in Fables

• Both are widely used in storytelling, particularly in Aesop's Fables, partly because it is part of human psychology to do so.

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