I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. Which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor? "I ask them to take a poem" "and hold it up to the light" "like a color slide" "or press an ear against its hive"

The line which contains a metaphor is:

"or press an ear against its hive"

Explanation:

Let's be really careful here and resist the temptation of selecting "like a color slide." This line contains a simile, not a metaphor.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two different things in order to attribute a quality of one of them to the other. To make such comparison, the metaphor states that "thing A is thing B" - a simile would use a sentence such as "thing A is like thing B."

Having that in mind, we can see that the line "or press an ear against its hive" is the one that contains a metaphor. The speaker is comparing the poem to a hive, as if it is possible to hear sounds inside it just like you would if you pressed your ear against a hive. The speaker wants us to visualize the poem as something else, something full of life and activity.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

odysseus shows many acts of bravery in homer's epic poem the odyssey. first, he shows bravery when he tricks polyphemus, the cyclops, and gouges out his eye. this is an act of bravery. it will also cost him because polyphemus was the son of poseidon, the god of the sea.

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