The person above me is correct - this quite indeed uses the literary technique known as simile.
When you are comparing two things using words such as <em>like </em>or <em>as, </em>such as in this example ("like a fresh watercolor painting left out in the rain"), then it is a simile.
Do you want us to tell you what it means?
It means, identify the organized structure of achieving your goals and relate how that pattern develops the authors point of view in a paragraph. Cite, using 2 pieces of textual evidence to support your claim.
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Could you kindly reveal what the question connected to that statement is?
Do you mean lackluster?
if that is the word then the root word would be luster and the affecting word be lack because you would be lacking luster. does this help?:)
