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In Things Fall Apart, what literary device does Achebe use in this quotation: “An ‘evil forest’ was, therefore, alive with sinister forces and powers of darkness”?

a. simile
b. onomatopoeia
c. personification
d. hyperbole

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The literary device used here is C, 'personification'. That literary device is used when you are trying to make an inanimate object come to life, such as here - 'evil forest was alive'. 
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