"The giant peach, with the sunlight glinting on its side, was like a massive golden ball sailing upon a silver sea." This sentence is an example of what type of figurative language?

What character trait does penelope demonstrate when she calls for the suitors to hold a contest? what other character has a similar trait? she demonstrates cleverness, like odysseus does when he tricks and overcomes foes. she demonstrates hospitality, like the phaeacians do when odysseus lands on their island. she demonstrates a lack of confidence, like telemachus does when he fails to kick out the suitors. she demonstrates a lack of self control, like odysseus’s men do when they slaughter helios’s cattle.

Which part of the original work should the adaptation retain

In a short story the narrator's word choice