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"The fog still slept on the wing above the drwoned city where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles." - personification, metaphor

The use of the pathetic fallacy implies the reflection onto the charcters, as fog connotes a cloud of judgement. Whilst the use of the metaphor to describe it as sleeping suggests the strong and motionless qualities of the fog. Also being a technqiue used in gothic literature of grotesque imagery, all portraying the sinister mood. It also suggests how the city is covered with crime as the fog gives criminals a chance to undergo their inner desires. This could be foreshadowing Hyde's entrance as he is pure evil and brings about his heinous actions to be exposed to the world. "Slept" could also suggest that how everyone sleeps everyday, crimes take place just as common as people sleeping. The fog conceals all evil as it was there due to the industrial revolution to emphasise on how Jack the Ripper got away with his crimes. The verb 'drowned' suggest that the fog smothers and covers you and your unable to overcome it this creates a sense of foreboding…