Past tense :) have a good day
The strategies I used are is I wrote down what I was going to say and I used everything i could to figure this out
Simile: “sprinkles passed over like army scouts;” The comparison connects sparse drops that hint at the full “army” of rain to come.
Personification: "The river was talking to me" The river was not actually talking but the author is giving person-like qualities to the river
