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from the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail.

what type of figurative language is used to describe hakim-a-barber’s hair?

metaphor to compare his hair to a mule’s tail.
hyperbole to exaggerate the disheveled look of his hair.
imagery to invoke the sense of sight.
simile to compare his hair to a mule’s tail.

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explanation:

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.