WHAT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS THIS ? no ship made sail next dat until some shipmate had raised a cry ,three times for each poor ghost unfleshed by the cicones on that Field

Onomatopoeia

Hope that helps, sorry if it does not

(you didn't attach a copy of the poem, but i'm answering as best as i can)

since a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, it kind of gives an item the ability to do something it can't.

example: "the player was like a tiger on the field"

in this sentence, the simile conveys the idea that the player was fast and strong, like a tiger.