Personification

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to objects, animals, or ideas.

Example From Text

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

Explanation

Can a forest really call? Here, the author gives the forest, or the wild, the human quality of calling when he writes "deep in the forest a call was sounding." The author uses this personification to emphasize how strongly Buck's instincts are telling him to live in the wild. He feels as though the wild is really calling out to him and telling him to live the life of a wild wolf. Why do you think that Jack London would choose The Call of the Wild as the title of this book?