"the books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry. the men danced and slipped and fell over them. titles glittered their golden eyes, falling, gone" (bradbury). the sentence in bold from the excerpt above is an example of what type of figurative language?

"The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry" is a simile

"Titles glittered their golden eyes" personification

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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d. lennie pats too hard, and then panics.