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. In three to five sentences, identify two examples of figurative language from the passage above and explain what each example of figurative language means. reweord it to sound like an 8th grader wrote it

Question

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. In three to five sentences, identify two examples of figurative language from the passage above and explain what each example of figurative language means. reweord it to sound like an 8th grader wrote it

Answer 1

In the passage, there are two clear examples of figurative language. First, the phrase "her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator" uses a simile to compare Melanie's nervous feeling to the sudden drop of an elevator, showing just how scared she is. Second, the comparison of the microphone to "the straw in her pink lemonade" is also a simile, illustrating how she sort of awkwardly leaned in to the mic like she would with a straw, which adds a bit of humor to the situation and makes her feel more relatable.