A simile is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
For example:
"John was like an eagle, as he quickly spotted the rabbit, and was able to capture it."
Note that the word <em>like</em> was used, and that it compared <em>John</em> with the <em>eagle</em>
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2. It was extremely embarrassing when my father was accused of corruption.
3. I was deeply embarrassed when I suddenly tripped on the catwalk.
The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic reached a new record low in September 2012. Climate change is melting the sea ice in the region at a rate much faster than estimated by earlier projections. The snow cover also shows a downward trend. The melting Arctic might impact not only the people living in the region, but also elsewhere in Europe and beyond.
I'd say that the number of the punctuation error in this sentence is 2, because you don't have to write <em>and </em>there as well.
It should be like this:
My sister is very confident, energetic, friendly, and she makes friends wherever she goes.
There are many ways you could change the past, some big and some small. You could kill hitler before the holocaust. You could prevent families from getting on the Titanic. You could tell medical profressionals the cure to diseases that weren't cured at the time. You could set two people up that wouldn't have ended up together otherwise. You could tell your parents a future winning lotto number. You could give someone the idea to invent something that will turn into a multi-million dollar company someday.
There are really endless possibilites, but those are the few that came to mind just now!
