Question

In Things Fall Apart, what literary device does Achebe use in this quotation: “An ‘evil forest’ was, therefore, alive with sinister forces and powers of darkness”?

a. simile
b. onomatopoeia
c. personification
d. hyperbole

Answer 1

The literary device used here is C, 'personification'. That literary device is used when you are trying to make an inanimate object come to life, such as here - 'evil forest was alive'.