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 a straw in her pink lemonade. she gathered up all 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 mothers face.

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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 a straw in her pink lemonade. she gathered up all 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 mothers face.

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

Answer 1

1) The phrase "her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator" is an example of a simile, comparing the feeling in Melanie's stomach to the sensation of a rapidly descending elevator. Similes are used to add vivid and descriptive imagery by comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as".

2) The expression "she bent the microphone toward her mouth, like a straw in her pink lemonade" is an example of a simile as well. It compares the way Melanie handles the microphone to the way a person would handle a straw in a drink. This simile serves to create a visual image of the delicate and careful manner in which she approaches the microphone.