Tobias began his informative speech by saying: you hear a noise under the hood of your car, so you pull over to the side of the road. your engine goes dead; you try to start the car, but it just sits there. then you see a lot of black smoke. what's happened? why won't your car go anywhere? what method for gaining attention and interest did tobias use?

arousing the curiosity of the audience

gregor could have been bullying her

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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