Question

Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

Answer 1

B“She’s gone from sounding like the smoke detector”

A simile is a comparison between two things using like or as. In this simile the mother is talking about how her daughter played the saxophone. She is comparing the first sounds her daughter played to a smoke detector. When looking for similes, always look for the word like or as. Without one of these, there is no simile.

Answer 2

The answer is B, a simile compares two things using the using the word like