Amy’s Metaphor, by Elisa Oh, is about a girl that completes an assignment about a metaphor about herself. She tells her teacher she can’t complete the second part of the assignment because she can’t think of a metaphor that matches her. From Scratch, by Susie Castellano, is about a girl who is working in the kitchen with her mother. She feels sad when she sees the super market and how it is unfriendly. The plot structures of both stories mix present and past events. In From Scratch, Priya and her mother Lindsay over the course of the story. In Amy’s Metaphor, the plot structure is organized as a _________.
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flashback.