The storming of the Bastille was full of hatred from the poor people in the District of St. Antoine, the crowd captured the governor of the Bastille and killed him. Madame Defarge had the honor of beheading him “…he dropped dead under it, that, suddenly animated, she put her foot upon his neck, and with her knife—long ready—hewed off his head.” This must have brought great liberation to the people of St. Antoine. An example of personification in this passage was when it stated that “A tremendous roar arose from the throat of Saint Antoine…” This is personification because it is giving the inanimate object of St. Antoine a characteristic of a living thing. An example of a simile is when it states “…a forest of naked arms struggled in the air
