“At parties, when all six-foot-five of him thundered into the room, attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun." The literary device present in the underlined quotation is an example of:
an analogy is where 1 thing is compared to another. "Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun" comparing attention to sunflowers to the sun
Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Comparing a tall man to the sun and the people that look at him to sunflowers that follow the sun.
