Question

"Even Captin Nielsen, that thought-mined old Swede, who'd go up to the devil himself and ask him for light." Is this a metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, irony, suspense or foreshadowing?

Answer 1

"Even Captain Nielsen, that thought-mined old Swede, who'd go up to the devil himself and ask him for light," contains an example of personification. Personification is a literary device in which human characteristics or qualities are attributed to non-human entities or objects. In this case, it attributes the human-like quality of "asking for light" to the devil, who is not a human but a supernatural being.