What Type of Figurative language is this: (PLEASE ANSWER IMMEDIATELY ) DUE BY MIDNIGHT!!!!!!


“Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped, and our hatred of it was still the vague, undirected restlessness of the zoo-bred flamingo who knows that nature created him to fly free”

AND

“The half-dawn light was more eerie than complete darkness, and in it the old house was like the ruin that my world had become--foul and crumbling, a grotesque caricature”