Read the paragraph and answer the question: Identify two examples of figurative language within this paragraph.

Question

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

Answer 1

Two examples of figurative language in this paragraph are "her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator" and "her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone".