a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
since a simile is where you compare 2 things i imagine the similie would be somwhere were he is talking about the maple tree. "before your could say jack robbison they have gone and grown alot bigger than you ever thought they could"
i had some trouble looking for it and thats all that makes sense for the similie i belive.
Answer:
American poet John Godfrey Saxe creating his own version as a poem, with a final verse that explains that the elephant is a metaphor for God, and the various blind men represent religions that disagree on something no one has fully experienced.
Bullying is wrong. Morally wrong. To purposely break someone down for fun is sick.
Since dogs have way better hearing than humans their ears are also a lot more sensitive. Loud scary noises like thunder would most likely sound way bigger and way more scary to a dog than humans. Also there might be rain or lighting. While rain will probably scare them because of the noise, dogs might be scared of lightning because they know the dangers of it.