Answer:
The lottery as in the book?
Explanation:
Since we are discussing sensory details, we are using all of our senses as Poe gives a word picture. Of course the only thing he doesn't do is taste it but he does everything else. He sees it, he hears it hissing, he feels the vibration, he smells its acrid breath.
The answer is allusion. It is a literary device that employs an indirect reference of something, it could a place, an animal, or a person that is significant to any field - history, culture, philosophy, literature, etc.
