PRACTICE 3

Read the following figures of speech. Identify each as either a simile or a metaphor.

		Marie’s fear mushroomed like a nuclear cloud.
		The red hibiscus in the garden folds her luscious tent each evening.
		Theo cradled the gallon jug of water like a football in the crook of his arm.
		As the rose seeks the sun, so beauty seeks truth.
		A prism of the world is held within a drop of dew upon the spider’s web.
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