In "eating together," the phrase "he lay down to sleep like a snow-covered road winding through pines older than him" tells you about the father. what type of figurative language is this?

Simile.

Explanation:

Simile is a figurative language that is used to compare two things to draw the similarities between them. This comparison is drawn using words "as" and "like".

In the given phrase of "Eating Together", the figurative language used is simile.

Two things are compared in the phrase using like. Li-Young Lee in this phrase is comparing the burial of his father with a place that is covered with snow where there are no travelers and the place is lonely.

So, the correct answer is simile.