Which part of this excerpt from william dean howells's "editha" uses figurative language?

(the air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst.)
(editha sat looking out into the hot spring afternoon, with her lips parted, and panting with the intensity of the question) whether she could let him go.
she had decided that she could not let him stay, (when she saw him at the end of the leafless avenue, making slowly up, toward the house) . .

If you are talking about this excerpt :

The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst. Editha sat looking out into the hot spring afternoon, with her lips parted, and panting with the intensity of the question whether she could let him go. She had decided that she could not let him stay, when she saw him at the end of the leafless avenue, making slowly up, toward the house . . . . the answer is:

A. The air was thick with the war feeling, like the electricity of a storm which has not yet burst.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.