Excerpted from "The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!

Which figurative language device describes the "blue-eyed banditti" in the poem "The Children's Hour"?
A. a simile
B. repetition
C. a metaphor
D. personification