Which literary device is used in this sentence from A Tale of Two Cities So leaving only one light burning on the large hearth he let his thin gauze curtains fall around him and heard night break?

Here's why:

* Personification is giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.

* In the sentence, "night break", the concept of night is given the human action of breaking, as if it's actively doing something.

This creates a more vivid and engaging image, suggesting a sense of power and agency in the arrival of night.