Does the sentence "bread is often called the staff of life" have a transitive or a intransitive verb

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. what literacy device does the poet use in this poem?

When trisha saw the boys on the stage she exclaimed finally a group of students who can act

What element of dante's inferno shows the reader that he wants to expose corruption in the church? a. by placing many church leaders among the sinners in hell b. by changing his own personality to create the dante character c. by allowing virgil, a well-respected poet, to be his guide d. by setting his story in hell and following the biblical description of hell2b2t