In the grassy lot the wrecks lay, cars with twisted, stove-in noses, wounded cars lying on their sides with the wheels gone. Engines rusting on the ground and against the shed. A great pile of junk; fenders and truck sides, wheels and axles; over the whole lot a spirit of decay, of mold and rust; twisted iron, half-gutted engines, a mass of derelicts.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 16. Steinbeck uses personification, when he describes a vehicle graveyard and gives human characteristics to the cars.