The dominant literary device used in the passage is?

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage below and answer the question

The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the
atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other
nourishment. it rubbed people’s cheeks like damp flannel when they
walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the window-panes at remote distances; the sunlight
would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window
upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.

A. metaphor
B. simile
C. oxymoron
D. hyperbole

Correct Answer:

Option B – simile