Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
The traveler from the deck of the steamer, as from some floating castle top, overlooks the whole country for miles and miles around. Tom, therefore, had spread out full before him, in plantation after plantation, a map of the life to which he was approaching.
In this excerpt from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe describes Tom’s future by using _____.
hyperbole
metaphor
allusion
personification