What figurative language does Miss Maudie use to explain Mr. Radley?

The figurative language Miss Maidie uses to explain Mr.Radley is personification.

One example of figurative language is personification. On page 12 it says, "From the day Mr. Radley took Arthur home, people say the house died."

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

reasoning from several particular examples to establish a general principle