After beginning of spring, the earth gradually woke up from a deep sleep. What rhetorical methods are used and what are their functions?

After beginning of spring, the earth gradually woke up from a deep sleep. This sentence uses personification rhetoric. Waking up from a deep sleep is a word to describe people. When used on the earth, it personifies the earth.

Personification refers to personification of things (including objects, animals, ideas or abstract concepts) to make them have human appearance, personality or emotion. Personification can be expressed by adjectives, verbs or nouns. Personification is to personify things. That is to say, treat things as people, and write with feelings, words and actions like people.