What is a metaphor for “this park has a lot of fun things to do”?

Which techniques best describe the tone the author is using in this passage?

Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

Which type of appeal does president lincoln use in these lines to try to persuade southerners