Melanie Walt out unto the stage and her stomach dropped like a Free Falling elevator she crept slowly over the podium and bent to the microphone toward her mouth like the straw and her pink lemonade she gathered up all of her courage and begin to speak her voice and imposter has it been through the microphone see lynched at its unfamiliarity and scan the room for her mother's face and three to five sentences Identify two examples of figurative language from the passage above and explain what each example of figurative language means
1. "her stomach dropped like a Free Falling elevator" - This is a simile comparing the feeling in Melanie's stomach to the sensation one gets when an elevator drops rapidly. It suggests that Melanie experienced a sudden surge of nervousness or fear.
2. "her voice and imposter has it been through the microphone see lynched at its unfamiliarity" - This is a metaphor comparing Melanie's voice to an imposter that has been put through a microphone. The phrase "lynched at its unfamiliarity" implies that Melanie's voice sounds unfamiliar to her, indicating her nervousness or lack of confidence in public speaking.