What stylistic device is employed in the following passage!
"I had not intended to love him: the reader knows I had
wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love
there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him,
they spontaneously revived, green and strong!"
A. Apostrophe
OB. Personification
O C. Allusion
O D. Metaphor
OE. Irony