Answer:
Personification.
Examples:
“The sun smiled down on us.”
'The story jumped off the page.”
“The light danced on the surface of the water.”
Answer: "A savage servility/slides by on grease" - Alliteration, when words that start with the same sound or same letter are used repeatedly. 2. "For the dark downward and vegetating kingdom" - Personification, is the metaphor used to paint an image in the mind of the reader; to emphasize a point.
Her essay is the persuasive type of essay. Hope I was of any help!