Excerpt from Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson All over his body Jesse Bentley was alive. In his small frame was gathered the force of a long line of strong men. He had always been extraordinarily alive when he was a small boy on the farm and later when he was a young man in school. In the school he had studied and thought of God and the Bible with his whole mind and heart. As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows. He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clouds they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod. "He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clouds they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod." Which figurative device is used in this sentence from the first paragraph?