come to life vs enliven

come to life

verb
  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrect 

  • to appear as if alive 

  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

enliven

verb
  • To make more lively, cheerful or interesting. 

How often have the words come to life and enliven occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )