Inpairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.

Object Metaphor Quality or Feature Compared
Cloud Huge mountains of clouds The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains.
Raindrops
Hailstones
Locusts
An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead.
An ox of a man.
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Object Metaphor Quality or Feature Compared
Cloud Huge mountains of clouds The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains
Raindrops A curtain of rain The draping or covering of an area by a curtain
Hailstones The frozen pearls The resemblance in color and hardness of a pearl
Locusts A plague of locusts The consequences (destruction) of plague
Locusts A plague of locusts An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead
Man An ox of a man The working of an ox in the fields (hard work)

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