Excerpt from Dracula

Bram Stoker

"Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of

the trees crashed together as we swept along."

*Though we were in shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the

trees crashed together as we swept along."

What figure of speech is used in this sentence from Dracula?

A)

a simile

a metaphor

an oxymoron

personification