Use the paragraph to complete the activity. Melanie walked out onto the stage, and her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator. She crept slowly over to the podium and bent the microphone toward her mouth, like the straw in her pink lemonade. She gathered up all of her courage and began to speak, her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone. She flinched at its unfamiliarity and scanned the room for her mother's face. In three to five sentences, identify two examples of figurative language from the passage above and explain what each example of figurative language means
1) "Her stomach dropped like a free-falling elevator": This is a simile, comparing the feeling in Melanie's stomach to the sensation of a free-falling elevator. It suggests that she experienced a sudden, intense feeling of nervousness or anxiety.
2) "Her voice an impostor as it boomed through the microphone": This is a metaphor, comparing Melanie's voice to an impostor. It implies that she feels her own voice sounds strange or unfamiliar when amplified by the microphone, as if it does not truly belong to her.