Question

what form of figurative language is this?
"so i opened it- you cannot imagine how stealthily,
stealthily -until at length a single dim ray like the
thread of the spider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vultrue eye"
which is it?
hyperbole
simile
personification

Answer 1

Simile

it uses the word like: "like the thread of the spider shot"

To better understand you can read this article: http://literarylab.blogspot.ca/2009/05/symbols-and-stories.html

Read under simile

Answer 2

k thx.

Answer 3

No problem