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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 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.

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Answer 1

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Two examples of figurative language in the passage are the phrase "her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator" and the comparison of the microphone to "the straw in her pink lemonade." The first example is a simile, comparing the feeling in Melanie's stomach to the sensation of a free-falling elevator, conveying the intensity of her nervousness. The second example is a metaphor, comparing the microphone to a straw in her pink lemonade, suggesting that it is a tool used to deliver her words, just like a straw is used to drink her lemonade.