He used shorter sentences and simpler words. This is the true answer
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The person above me is correct - this quite indeed uses the literary technique known as simile.
When you are comparing two things using words such as <em>like </em>or <em>as, </em>such as in this example ("like a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain"), then it is a simile.