Ishmael uses poetic devices to communicate his first impressions of the city. Share at least one of those lines here and identify the poetic device used.

There is simile and personification here:

From afar, some of the buildings looked as if they were made of colorful lights. The city glittered, and I was so completely overwhelmed that I couldn’t decide where to look. I thought I had seen tall buildings in Freetown, but these were beyond tall, it seemed they were poking the sky