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Question 5:In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been…

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Question 5:

In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.

Object

Metaphor

Quality or Feature Compared

Cloud

Huge mountains of cloudsThe mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains.

Raindrops

Hailstones

Locusts

An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead.
An ox of a man.
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    Object
    Metaphor
    Quality or Feature Compared

    Cloud
    Huge mountains of cloudsThe mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains
    Raindrops
    A curtain of rainThe draping or covering of an area by a curtain
    Hailstones
    The frozen pearlsThe resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl
    Locusts
    A plague of locustsThe consequences (destruction) of plague
    Locusts
    A plague of locustsAn epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead
    Man
    An ox of a manThe working of an ox in the fields (hard work)