come to life vs wake up

come to life

verb
  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

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

  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to appear as if alive 

wake up

verb
  • To awaken somebody. 

  • To awake. 

  • To become more aware of a real-life situation; to concentrate on the matter in hand. 

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