The children voices laughing and the smiles like salt but decaying fast. what literary element is illustrated in the above sentence a. metaphor b. personification c. simile d. allusion it probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds what literary element is illustrated in the above sentence a. metaphor b. personification c. simile d. allusion what does the author mean by the phrase "thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds" a. the bombs were thrown by soilders burning down in the city b. the bombs were dropped by airplanes during a war c. te bombs killed children playing hopscotch outside on the street d. the bombers killed everyone but the book thief who was hiding in the basement