I dont think you'd be able to answer this unless you've read the story, so posting it without the story would not benefit you - you might want to go in and add it. :)
Well MLA formatting stands for Modern Language Association, and MLA format refers to the format the association created that is commonly used in many areas of academic writing, particularly in the humanities.
It may not help much but this is mostly what I know by what is meant by MLA formatting.
"My Uncle's face is tan old shoe leather."
A metaphor describes something as an equal to something else without using like or as to explain the similarity.
Example:
<span>"Freddie is a pig when he eats," both Freddie and a pig are sloppy eaters.</span>
