According to my research on various linguistic professionals, I can say that based on the information provided within the question this is an example of a Metaphor. This term refers to a comparison of one thing with another totally different thing, and is usually done to make illustrate a vivid description. In this situation the simile is the comparison of the tennis racket to her family.
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Transition is the literary device used when it is necessary for the author to use a word, or an expression, that connects two different thoughts expressed in the same sentence or in the same paragraph, allowing the text to have a pleasant fluidity and that the narrative is coherent and consistent .
In the passage shown in the question above, the expression "Just as" is used as a transition, because it allows the coherent connection between the two different ideas presented in the rest of the paragraph.
It determines ones success in society, obviously it’s not a necessarily fact or universal statement, but society views some jobs as higher, causing them to be looked at as higher
