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The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
What literary device is most clearly used in this passage?

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Personification.

Rubs is the key word because smoke can't really rub things like a human, so it's personifying human behavior.

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The answers is Imagery (APEX)

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