This is a metaphor.
Similies use "as" or "like" to explicitly denote a comparison and personifications give human-like characteristics to animals, objects, or concepts.
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show us what though.cant help if theres nothing.
The most important characters in the frame story are Jim Smiley and the Stranger.
A frame story is a story within a story. So this story written by Mark Twain is allegedly about the writer coming to a village to speak to Simon Wheeler about Leonidas Smiley. However, then we see the beginning of the frame story, which is about how Jim Smiley and his frog were tricked by the Stranger.
