Can Personification Use Like or As

While a simile is a direct comparison between two things using ‘as’ or ‘like’, personification is the treatment of a non-living thing as a living being.

Can personification be simile?

In metaphors, something is mentioned as something else. But in similes, it is said that something is like something else. Although similes are like metaphors, metaphors are not similes. Personification is giving human qualities to a non-living thing, non-human, object or idea.

What is personification example?

Personification is when you give an object or animal human behaviors. An example of personification would be in the nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle Diddle,” where “the little dog laughed to see such fun.”