Answer:
It is a simile
Explanation:
Its comparing the two ideas "highway" and "streams in a dry season" using like.
The author of "My Brother's Keeper" emphasizes Jaime's conflict by flashing back to earlier events with his brother Ted.
In "My Brother's Keeper", the author includes the line "and Jaime thought to himself, this time it must be bad" in Jamie's phone conversation with Ted in order to develop Ted as a character who often is in trouble.
Noun ,pronoun,gerund or clause the "object" of the preposition.
