Question

this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diegos love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. what type of figurative language is the underlined allusion metaphor simile

Explanation:

The phrase "the hundred dogs panting like children" uses the word "like" to compare the dogs panting to children. This is a characteristic of a simile, which is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things using "like" or "as".

Answer:

simile