This excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" is an example of allusion epigraph personification simile

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,

Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,

And seeing that it was a soft October night

Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.

If we are talking about the poem above. I am pretty sure the answer is personification.

fearing kabuki could corrupt the nation’s morals, japanese government officials

explanation:

the national morals was so the japanese and the kabuki would stop fighting