Read the following line from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Then, answer the question that follows.
I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.
Which figurative language device is used in this passage?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Personification
Simile