1. The children surrounded her like / the roots of a tree. What technique is being used (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)? How can you tell?

metaphor

Explanation:

The children aren’t actually tree roots, and they use the statement “surrounded her like” therefore it is a metaphor.

thick as the foliage of the waving wood; the figurative language that is used here is referring to a battle. there are two mountains that are facing opposite of each other, and they have armies better stick like a forest.

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