Read the following excerpt from “Our Schools are a Scandal” by Kyle Crichton: The teachers reply that they have the most nerve-racking job ever invented, battling as many as forty little demons (it is now said to be sixty in some classrooms) who are either actively sadistic or have adopted a manner of silent resistance that defies a grain for learning to pierce their craniums.

What type of figurative language did the author use to describe students?

hyperbole

simile

personification

metaphor