At twelve, he knew better, but sometimes still pictured the Government as a very big, mean, fat person, two or three times as tall as an ordinary man, who went around yelling at people, “Not allowed!” and “Stop that” What type of figurative language is this and where in the sentence does it explain

personification

Explanation:

Figurative language is when we use everyday words and sentences but not in their literal meaning. We go beyond their meaning and express something else, something more. We do this by using figures of speech (metaphors, symbols, similes, allusions etc.)

In this particular case, we have the Government, which is a governing body, a system, depicted as a person. When we give features of living things to inanimate objects, we use personification, which is also a figure of speech.

Here, the Government is described as a "big, mean, fat person yelling at the people".