What figurative language is used in "The Lesson"?

In the first few paragraphs of Toni Cade Bambara's short story "The Lesson," the reader encounters numerous examples of simile and analogy.
The narrator, Sylvia, uses simile when trying to describe her feelings of contempt for Miss Moore, a teacher who challenges Sylvia's expectations about how black women should present themselves—Miss Moore has "nappy hair" and wears no make-up—and who encourages Sylvia and the other children in the neighborhood to think about life beyond what they've always known.
Sylvia describes her own feelings and the feelings of her cousin, Sugar, in the following way:

And we kinda hated her too, hated the way we did the winos who cluttered up our parks and pissed on our handball walls and stank up our hallways and stairs so you couldn’t halfway play hide-and-seek without a goddamn gas mask.

The phrase "the way" replaces the traditional comparative word "like." Though Miss Moore has nothing in common with the winos, Sylvia draws a parallel between both based on her sense of how they spoil her sense of how things should be in her world. Sylvia is territorial and quick to issue contempt to those who encroach on that world in ways that offend her.
Sylvia and Sugar also laugh at Miss Moore:

And quite naturally we laughed at her, laughed the way we did at the junk man who went about his business like he was some big-time president and his sorry-ass horse his secretary.

In this instance, similes are used in two places—both to compare Miss Moore to the junk man and to liken the junk man's attitude to a particular image of grandiosity. Here, Sylvia wants to communicate that she finds Miss Moore as absurd as she does the junk man. Like him, Miss Moore doesn't realize how "low" she really is, which makes her seem silly.
The lesson in this story, which Sylvia resists to the very end, is how much the children have internalized racism—which isn't their fault. Sylvia gets angry with Miss Moore later in the story for making them aware of the oppression that they could not or would not see.