As I read away, I was Rapunzel, or the Goose Girl or the Princess Labam in one of the Thousand and One Nights who mounted the roof of her palace every night and of her own radiance faithfully lighted the whole city just by reposing there, and I daydreamed I could light Davis School from across the street.

In the excerpt above, what form of figurative language does the author use?

metaphor
hyperbole
imagery
onomatopoeia