Answer:
It looks like a simile is used, "dry as a biscuit,". It's comparing how dry something is to how dry a biscuit is.
I'm not sure about the rest, because I don't have context clues, but it looks like that's the only figurative language.
At the end of a paragraph or conclusion.
I feel that they got caught up in the media and had no right opinion on it. The reason is the showtence that the medium of the story tells us. The proper analysis.
