Answer:
Have you considered highlighting the already arid climate?
Explanation:
As someone who's seen australia, I can confidently say the middle feels like it's constantly on fire. Maybe highlight that this creates highly flammable brush?
The correct answer is metaphor.
A metaphor is a rhetorical figure of speech where two or more things are symbolically compared, without using the words such as like or as (because that would be a simile). This whole poem is symbolical/metaphorical - it talks about the passage of time and how everything is transient and fleeting.
They are rubric tools that state specific criteria that allow teachers and students to gather information and to make judgments about what students know and can do in relation and outcomes.
Hope this helps! :)