What rhetorical method is used in the sentence that elm leaves are like palms?

This sentence uses personification and metaphor as rhetorical devices. Sophora japonica is thick, but Zhuang is used to describe Sophora japonica and Zhuang is used to describe people, so anthropomorphic rhetoric is used here; Comparing the leaves of plane trees to the palm of your hand is a figure of speech.

Ballad: the poplar is tall and the banyan is strong.

Buttonwood leaves are like palm trees.

Maple trees in Ye Er are red in autumn.

Pine and cypress are green in all seasons.

Kapok likes the warmth of the south.

Birch trees are cold-resistant and defend northern Xinjiang?

Text: The elm tree is tall, the locust tree is strong, and the plane tree leaves are like palms. Pomegranate flowers are like fire, osmanthus trees are like thyme, and mulberry trees bear purple and sweet fruits. Pine trees are dressed in green all year round, palm trees like the warmth in the south, and oak trees are cold-resistant and guard the frontier.