Answer:
None of my answers are really defined- but I hope this helps either way :3
1) The participle in that sentence is "had the" or "had the clerk"
2) It is a past participle
3) The participle phrase may be "seen such a focused man"
Simile because it has “like” in it.
My father studied about the Nile River with proessor Waleed D. Najaar at Smithtown University