Read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. Answer the question that follows.

But as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building--a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.

Which figurative language device is used in the bolded excerpt?

Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Simile