Question

Melanie walked out onto the stage, and her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator. She crept slowly over to the podium and bent the microphone toward her mouth, like the straw in her pink lemonade. She gathered up all of her courage and began to speak, her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone. She flinched at its unfamiliarity and scanned the room for her mother's face.

in three to five sentences, identify two examples of figurative language from the passage above and explain what each example of figurative language means.

Answer 1

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One example of figurative language in the passage is "her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator". This is a simile, as it compares the feeling in Melanie's stomach to the sensation of an elevator dropping. It conveys the suddenness and intensity of Melanie's nervousness and fear as she steps onto the stage.

Another example of figurative language is "bent the microphone toward her mouth, like the straw in her pink lemonade". This is also a simile, comparing the action of bending the microphone to the action of bending a straw in a drink. It helps to highlight the delicacy and caution with which Melanie handles the microphone, emphasizing her nervousness and desire to make everything perfect.