<h2>Personification</h2><h2>In this description, the writer uses personification to help us see the town as more than a collection of streets and buildings.</h2><h2>Bonus Answers</h2><h2> It also uses alliteration to describe Maycomb. Alliteration creates a sense of rhythm by putting words that begin with the same consonant in close proximity:</h2><h2> In a memorable line, the writer describes the heat using a simile.</h2>