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Which literary device is used in this sentence The loud clicking of the timer was making you dizzy?

The literary device used in the sentence "The loud clicking of the timer was making you dizzy" is personification.

Here's why:

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

* In this case, the timer, a non-living object, is described as "clicking" and making someone "dizzy". The timer is being given the human quality of making someone feel a certain way (dizzy).

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