Personification In A Tale Of Two Cities

This passage is rich with literary devices including imagery and personification. This passage is describing the chaos and turmoil happening at the storming of the Bastille. One of the literary devices makes everything seem not even close to being diminutive. This is the imagery that Dickens writes. He wrote, “Flashing weapons, blazing torches… shrieks volleys… massive stone walls, and the eight great towers,” (224). Words like “massive” and “great” make everything seem large and important and allow the reader to see what the scene looked like. Dickens tried to circumvent using boring words, like big, and chose words like “blazing.” He was extremely descriptive and that made the quote seem all the more real. Dickens also used personifications.