Diction-Personification

"But, then, a voice within me averred that I could do it and foretold that I should do it. I wrestled with my own resolution: I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me: and Conscience, turned tyrant, held Passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swear that with the arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony" (pg 262). The author personifies Passion and Conscience and lets them fight about her. This personification greatly helps the reader know the struggle Jane is undertaking in this situation.