In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

You cannot know
 And should not bother
Tide and market come and go
And so shall your mother

In this verse the poet uses

Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cost, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of 

Pick out the odd item