Answer:
1. The children are following the ice cream car
2. the police are catching the thieves
<em>In medias res </em>means in the middle of the action.
<em>In medias res</em> is a literary term that<u> is used to refer to a text that starts in the middle of the plot instead of starting with the beginning of the story</u>. When writers employ <em>in medias res</em>, they usually present the events that happened before by means of flashbacks or dialogue. Famous literary works such as Homer's <em>Iliad</em> and<em> Odyssey </em>and Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet </em>begin in medias res; in other words, <u>they go straight to the heart of the plot</u>.
Answer:
1. am watching
2. is not listening
3. are sitting
Explanation:
All of those above is at present continuous tense.
There is no simile because the sentence does not have like or as. Therefore, the answer is none. Good luck!