Which literary device does the author use in these lines from a short story? So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand. . . . (from "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner) simile metaphor syntax irony

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....and slunk about the house like burglars.

It is a simile as the men are being compared to burglers.