Identify the type of figurative language their thoughts were like golden birds?

English class debate Quote "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward fa...

"The entire able bodied population are preparing to massacre one another, thought no one, it is true, wants to attack. Yet the whole world feels that it only requires some unforese...