Select the choice that best describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence below.

"I felt like a quickly melting snowman under the glare of all those watching eyes."

A. The author uses personification to give a snowman human feelings.

B. The author uses a metaphor to compare being on a stage to being a snowman.

C. The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting.

D. The author uses a metaphor to compare the cool feeling of standing on stage to snow.

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Audrey Wagner

15 January, 14:26

Select the choice that best describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence below.

"I felt like a quickly melting snowman under the glare of all those watching eyes."

A. The author uses personification to give a snowman human feelings.

B. The author uses a metaphor to compare being on a stage to being a snowman.

C. The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting.

D. The author uses a metaphor to compare the cool feeling of standing on stage to snow.

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Elijah Freeman · Answer 1

C. The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting because the sentence uses the word "like," which is an underlying hint to similes. Without it, it would be a metaphor.

Thumper · Answer 2

Your answer would be C. Something with like/as would be a simile and something without like/as would be a metaphor.