Read the following passage by Picoult and identify the metaphor. Quote the metaphor in your response and explain what makes it fit the definition of metaphor.

Question

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it has faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

from My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult (pg. 54)

Answer 1

Think about the uses/meanings of these words.

print
stains
shame
five-fingered

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Answer 2

"shame is five-fingered.” IS THE METAPHOR..

Answer 3

Yes, and I think the words "print that stains me" is also.