In the paragraph beginning. "summer was on the way...," Scout describes summer by comparing it to a series of other things that remind her of the season. What literary term best fits her description?

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

In a word...... "freedom"!