Answer:
Personification gives a very good and descriptive meaning to an otherwise lifeless object.
Ex: "The trees branches whispered in the wind"
Ex: "The sad old house sat on top of the hill"
Abigail Williams and John Proctor are ex-lovers. We discover in the first act of The Crucible by Arthur Miller that the two of them had an affair. Abigail was the Proctor's servant girl, and it was, at least according to her, a very intense affair.