Question

"The sky was gloomy, and the

shortest streets were choked up
with a dingy mist, half thawed, half
frozen, whose heavier particles
descended in a shower of sooty
atome, as if all the chimney in
Great Britain had, by one consent,
caught fire, and were blazing away
to their dear hearts' content."
What literary device

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

there is figurative language by way of simile(shower of sooty atome AS if...)

personification (choked up, sky can't choke