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"We drove the sharp end of the beam into the monster’s eye and bearing upon it with all my weight I kept turning it round and round as though I were boring a hole in a ship’s plank with an auger, which two men with a wheel and strap can keep on turning as long as they choose. Even thus did we bore the red hot beam into his eye, till the boiling blood bubbled all over it as we worked it round and round so that the steam from the burning eyeball scalded his eyelids and eyebrows, and the roots of the eye sputtered in the fire..." (paragraph 17) The excerpt above is best described as an example of what literary device?

A. allusion
B. personification
C. symbolism
D. imagery

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