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CAHSEE ELA: Fluency Drill 3, Problem 1. Which of the following is not an example of a simile?
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CAHSEE ELA 3.3 Fluency. Which line contains a metaphor?
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Here's a shmoop poem du jour...
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There was a king and he ruled with
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an iron fist. His subjects hated
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what he did to them, but he didn't care.
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He wanted power. Absolute power.
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Which line contains a metaphor?
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And here are the potential answers:
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So... what is this question asking? Do we know what a metaphor is, and can we recognize
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one when we see it?
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There's no like or as here, or we'd have a simile on our hands.
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If we read through the paragraph, pretty much every word in it is straightforward with the
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exception of that whole iron fist thing. It's not... literal.
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Like... does anyone other than maybe Captain Hook actually HAVE an iron fist?
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It's an allusion to something else.
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So it's a metaphor. And the answer has to be lines 2-3 or answer B...
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...as in "Beware of crocodiles..."
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