As the old man tries to comfort himself, the narrator states it is in vain "because death had stalked with his black shadow … and enveloped the victim." this quotation contains an example of question 13 options: simile personification parallel structure alliteration

personification        

Explanation:

          The term 'personification' means to attribute any human characteristics or nature to some non human objects. It represents an abstract quality. It is a metaphor in which an abstraction or a thing is being represented as a human being.

           In the context, death is being compared with a person and the narrator says that 'death' had stalked the victim which is a metaphor. As 'death' is not living person so it cannot stalk anybody. Thus this is an example of a personification.

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