How is personification an effective writting tool?

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Here are some really good sites explaining the use of personification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personification.html
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/index.html