My cousin works very hard. He is a machine that never stops." This is a ...

A. simile example

B. metaphor example

C. personification example

B or Metaphor Example!

When using words like “is” and “are” normally it’s a metaphor but if you can replace the “is” with “like” turning it into a simile then it’s a metaphor. Hope that helps and makes sense :)))

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.