The answer would be personification.
Personification is giving an animal or object human traits or describing them doing something normally only a human can do. Words cannot physically dance across a page.
You could do the phrase "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." These are obviously the unalienable rights guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence. For example, you could say something like "without these unalienable rights, the country would be just a mess." Hope this helps!
He gets scared. it really rattles him, mentally