Are you looking for the pronoun? If so it would be "He"
Interpretive: it causes the reader to infer the answer <span />
It seems that you have missed the necessary details for us to answer this question, so I had to look for it. Anyway, here is the answer. Based on the given sentence above, the literary technique that is being used is SIMILE, because of comparing using as..as. Hope this helps.
What are the answer options?
There are many possible answers for that blank.
