Answer and Explanation:
This is the poem "Teenagers" by Pat Mora:
One day they disappear
into their rooms.
Doors and lips shut
and we become strangers
in our own home.
I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can't remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
Years later the door opens.
I see faces I once held,
open as sunflowers in my hands. I see
familiar skin now stretched on long bodies
that move past me
glowing almost like pearls.
As was described in the question, a simile compares two different things with the help of "as" or "like". The purpose is to attribute a characteristic of one of those things to the other.
<u>In the poem, the speaker is using a simile when she says, "open as sunflowers in my hands." Her children are now big, much bigger than she could have expected them to become in just a few years. It's as if she is surprised by the fact that they are no longer babies. They are grown, different, just like a flower is when it opens, when it ceases being just a bud.</u>
I believe the answer is 76%
Yes, it's correct. A prefix is a group of letters placed before the root of a word. For example unemployment, the root is "employ" "ment" is the suffix and the prefix added is UN which means (not). So, when you add the prefix it changes the meaning of the word, in this case to a negative word. Employ is a verb and unemployment is a noum.
