A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things using “like” or “as”
Answer:
A. I was very sick one winter with flu. I had to stay inside all month long, and no one could come to visit me. I was so lonely and felt so sad, because I wished my friends would come over, so I know how August might have felt when everyone stayed away from him.
This would be a simile because the author is comparing a rag doll and a snowboarder using the word "like"
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.