A non living things given human like characteristics is

Answer: personification

Explanation:If you are looking for a figurative language reason, it's personification because when you are giving a non living thing human like stuff you are making a personification

Example: the sun was smiling down at me.

Personification because it is being called something like funny, caring, young when a sink can't be funny or caring it isn't alive so it is being described with human words