Question

7. Use the paragraph to complete the activity.

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.

Identify one example of metaphor from the passage above.
*
1 point
her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator
She crept slowly over to the podium
her voice an imposter
She flinched at its unfamiliarity

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

- her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator