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.
(4 points)

Explanation:

• "her stomach dropped like a free - falling elevator" is a simile. It compares the feeling of her stomach dropping to the rapid and sudden fall of an elevator, showing her extreme nervousness.
• "her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone" is a metaphor. It implies that her voice seemed foreign or out of place to her, like an impostor, highlighting her discomfort with how her voice sounded.

Answer:

Two examples of figurative language are: "her stomach dropped like a free - falling elevator" (simile, shows nervousness) and "her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone" (metaphor, shows discomfort with her voice).