Question

as her hand move mechanically like the tongs of machine I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make identify the literary device used in this line ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Here, a metaphor is used to describe poverty in terms of a 'web', i.e., poverty is described in terms of a feature of the web. It's a metaphor since it uses 'scrounging' with 'gold' which are ideas that are not very similar.