Personification

In 'Neem Baba', from your book Poorvi, Amber speaks to the neem tree as if it were a person. And the tree speaks back! It remembers Amber as a small child, it tells her its story, and at the end it blesses her. A real tree cannot do any of these things. People can.

When we speak about something that is not a person as if it were a person, it is called personification. Your book names this on page 83. ('Person' is hidden inside the word 'personification'.)

Your book gives two more examples: 'The leaves whispered in the wind' and 'The flowers danced merrily in the breeze'. Leaves cannot really whisper, and flowers cannot really dance: people whisper and dance. The writer gives the leaves and flowers a person's action, so we can picture them moving and rustling.

To spot personification, ask: is this thing a person? If not, is it doing something that only a person really does, like talking, smiling, whispering or dancing? If yes, it is personification. But 'The dog barked' is not personification, because dogs really do bark.