It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable [unending] serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness.

In this passage, what animals does Dickens compare smoke and machinery to?

a serpent and an elephant
a chimney and a monster
a black canal and a steam-engine
a piston and an elephant

This passage contains an example of personification. Dickens compares smoke and machinery to animals like a serpent and an elephant in this passage.

What is personification?

Personification is a figure of speech, which refers to comparison of a living being to the characteristics of non-living things. Personification is also referred to as intention of representation of abstract qualities.

The above passage is taken from a poem by Charles Dickens. In the passage, Dickens compares smoke to a serpent and machinery to an elephant.

As we know that smoke and machinery are completely abstract qualities to the qualities possessed by animals like serpent and elephant, personification has been expressed.

Hence, the option A; Dickens has compared smoke and machinery to the animals like serpent and elephant in the passage of the poem above by using personification.

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