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CAHSEE ELA 3.5 Fluency. Which of the following is an example of a simile?

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Here's a shmoopish question you may find in life:

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Read the following passage. My brother always wanted to do everything

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his way. Whether it was what we were eating for dinner or what movie we were watching

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on Sunday night, he always had the final say. He was as stubborn as a mule, and my parents

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learned long ago that it was easier to just give in than to argue with him.

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Which of the following is an example of a smile?

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Here are the potential answers:

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So... what is this question asking? Do we know what a simile is?

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Well, we know it's almost certainly gonna use LIKE or AS. That's kinda integral to

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the definition of a simile -- it uses like or as to compare things.

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So if we knew NOTHING else -- didn't even read the paragraph...

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...we could take a quick glance at answer C and get our answer...

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...stubborn as a mule.

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None of the other potential answers have an as or a like IN them so... yeah the answer

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is C, as in...

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"College won't be this easy."

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