What type of language techniques that are used by Roald Dahl in The Great Mouse Plot?

Answer 1

I see a simile in the second sentence.

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1vX-4bu1ex_W2OUQT2RMZWfSrC6vCtm8SWGtnletdvy0/edit?pli=1

What else do you see?