What type of figurative language is used in the following statement? "Todd's next punch crashed into the side of my ear and I fell on the floor and pulled my knees up to my chest and crossed my arms in front of my head like a turtle in a shell." *

Simile.

Explanation:

Simile is a comparison that uses 'like' or 'as'. So in that sentence:

"...crossed my arms in front of my head like a turtle in a shell" is using a simile.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.