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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 clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
Raindrops | ||
Hailstones | ||
Locusts | An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead; the locusts' ability to destroy crops | |
An ox of a man |