Will mark brainlistread this line: slippery, slithery snakes meandered across the desert. what figure of speech is used in the sentence? alliteration hyperbole simile metaphor

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.