The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze. Wordsworth's "I ...
An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work."
A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters.