Question

In pairs, 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.

Answer 1

Explanation: the metaphor in the story is that spreads very rapidly(very fast).