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In which phrase does Dickens use figurative language?
Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times,
It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which
interminable [unending) serpents of smoke trailed
themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It
had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-
smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows
where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and
where the piston of the steam-engine worked
monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in
a state of melancholy madness.
"like the head of an elephant"
"rattling and a trembling all day long"
"a town of machinery and tall chimneys"
"a black canal"