Question

Select the choice that best describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence below.
"I felt like a quickly melting snowman under the glare of all those watching eyes."
A.The author uses personification to give a snowman human feelings.
B.The author uses a metaphor to compare being on a stage to being a snowman.
C.The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting.
D.The author uses a metaphor to compare the cool feeling of standing on stage to snow.

Answer 1

C. The author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting because the sentence uses the word "like," which is an underlying hint to similes. Without it, it would be a metaphor.

Answer 2

Your answer would be C. Something with like/as would be a simile and something without like/as would be a metaphor.