What kinds of literary devices are used in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?

is full of figurative language (like similes and metaphors) and
proverbs. Achebe, a Nigerian writer who is critical of British colonialism in his work, has been
called out by some reviewers for writing in English, the colonizer's language. However, his use
of figurative language and proverbs helps Achebe express cultural beliefs and capture the speech
patterns of Igbo people.

Here are some examples from early in the novel,
though Achebe consistently incorporates figurative language and proverbs throughout the
work.

And so at a very early age when he was striving
desperately to build a barn through share-croppingwas also fending for his fathers house.
It was like pouring grains of corn into a bag full of holes. His mother and
sisters worked hard enough, but they grew womens crops, like coco-yams, beans and cassava. Yam,
the king of crops, was a mans crop. (22-23)

The bolded
phrase is an example of. In this simile, the narrator compares Okonkwos work...