The two things being compared in the simile in this excerpt are flowers and cottages. Alice imagines flowers as being like cottages with the roofs taken off and stalks put to them.
Read this except from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an elephant—as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first. “And what enormous flowers they must be!” was her next idea. “Something like cottages with the roofs taken off, and stalks put to them—and what quantities of honey they must make!”
What two things are being compared in the simile in this excerpt?
flowers and cottages
bees and elephants
roofs and honey
stalks and flowers
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