Personification is a figure of speech that authors use to describe human characteristics to a non-human things. It can be an animal, an object, or even an idea. The lines from "The Rime of the Acient Mariner" present Personification by using the verbs <em>came</em> and <em>went, </em>as well as the personal pronoun <em>he </em>, giving human attributes to the sun.