It takes place<span> when slavery was at its height in America</span>
It's 2 because hers' means possessive and it's saying the book is his/her it's hers'
Simile because it uses the word like (anything using like or as is a simile)
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I read theory of everything by Stephen Hawking
also I read a novel named Gone With The Wind it's about love story
and last one The Alchemist