Question

Which figurative language comes across most clearly in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"?

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

Answer 1

The figurative language that comes across most clearly in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes" is imagery.
Imagery is the use of adjectives and action verbs to create a vivid image that can be easily envisioned and felt as if we were actually a part of that scene.