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Destinee Cummings

15 January, 22:35

Match each kind of figurative language from a poem with the same kind of figurative language from the novel The Sweet Hereafter.

We sounded like strangers, sitting in a dentist's waiting room.

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I could hear the bedsprings squeak as he got into bed next to Mom, and soon I heard him snoring.

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The skeleton of the Ferris wheel ... called out to me

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Answer

A.

At the word, the saw,/As if to prove saws knew what supper meant,/Leaped out at the boy's hand

B.

The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard/And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood; Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

C.

A Window opens like a Pod