personification vs trope

personification and trope both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personification	Yes	No	No	No
trope	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trope is a hypernym of personification; that is, trope is a word with a broader meaning than personification:

personification: representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Other hypernyms of personification include figure, figure of speech, image.

personification (noun)	trope (noun)
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
a person who represents an abstract quality