This is a metaphor. unlike a simile, for example, Brave as a fox comma it does not use like or as. the definition of a metaphor is, a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
In his travels Author William Least Heat-Moon stumbled upon the little store in a county names Nameless in Tenessee, eh tehn wrote about this journey he took with his family and when he describes this place he starts off by describing their store, and then Ginny and Thurmond Watts telling him the story of how the name of the county came to be.
The answer for this question is true