The quote you provided uses a heavy amount of the literary technique known as Imagery. The description evokes vivid sensory experiences—sight, sound, and touch—through detailed and evocative language, allowing the reader to vividly imagine the scene and the sensations associated with it.
"And then [Beatty] was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him. There was a hiss like a great mouthful of spittle banging a red-hot stove, a bubbling and frothing as if salt had been poured over a monstrous black snail to cause a terrible liquefaction and a boiling over of yellow foam. Montag shut his eyes, shouted, shouted, and fought to get his hands at his ears to clamp and to cut away the sound. Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent."
The quote above vividly describing the death of Captain Beatty, uses a heavy amount of the literary technique known as
Group of answer choices
Satire
Allusion
Personification
Imagery
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