Question

It takes much time to kill a tree....figure of speech?

Answer 1

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it takes much time to kill a tree :
personification

Answer 2

It is a grammatical application of personification.

When qualities of human beings are imposed on nonhuman objects, that is being signified as personification.

In the subject of arts, personification indicates representation of non-human objects as if it were the human object.

Personification adopts human traits and qualities, such as emotional, desires, sensational, gestures and speech, usually by way of a metaphor. Personification is most used phenomena in visual arts.

One example is "the trees swang in the wind" .In common language, personification is normally giving an example of a living being for a non-living one.

Obviously, the wind cannot shout, and it ai literary only.