What rhetorical devices are used in the following sentences? The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (P.13) A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (P.18) Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns ...(P.19) The apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist. (p. 20) ...to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.(P.20)