The Great Gatsby

Chapter 7

"So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed, and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture" (124).

What literary device is being used in this sentence? Explain.

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Personification one emotion after another crept into her face

and simile like objects into a slowly

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