Question

What stylistic element has been used in this sentence from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?


There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.




irony




imagery




personification




simile

Answer 1

@Gravity_Dreams

Answer 2

@paki

Answer 3

imagery