What type of figurative language is this? why?
the moon was ghostly galleon tossed upon a cloudy seas, the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

 The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

Which technique is being used? Metaphor

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?  Comparing the moon to a ghost ship without using "like" or "as."  Comparing the road to a ribbon of moonlight without using "like" or "as."

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.