Question

What type of poetic device is used in the following sentence? "The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter's Hill.''

Answer 1

Answer:

personification

One example of personification from Dickens' novel is when the narrator says, ''The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter's Hill. '' The word ''lumbering'' is usually used to describe the way that a person walks.