Absolutely not. Pony Boys are just people roleplaying in real life as a pony or something, and if they are just roleplaying, they won't do their job right.
The sentence in this conversation between Emily and Anna that indicates Emily's bad habits is when Emily said, "Yeah, but there was too much to study. I guessed on all the answers! Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed."
A simile uses the words like and as while a metaphor doesn't. A simile is used to compare to things. For example, the cat was pouring LIKE a lion.
It is both but it depends