It should be a simile because the word 'like' is there.
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Found one: <span> The great black forest--stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom--became the playmate of the lonely infant, as well as it knew how.</span>
This would be handle through speeches, talks, assembly's, conventions, and so on. This would be the ways that we would be able to convince the people who are coming to these places to convince them about what ever the topic that we would be speaking about.