Read the following excerpt and answer the question that follows.
the boys came buzzing around like bees around a jam pot.
what type of figurative language is used in this excerpt?

Public beatings and hangings were a way to instill fear in certain groups of people or to the general population. It was a way for authority figures at the time to control those who wanted freedom or equal rights from oppressing laws. Servants or field workers were often beaten to teach them a lesson, to discipline them and to show those who witnessed it that they would bear the same fate if they disobeyed the rules.