Mr. shiftlet was so shocked that for about a hundred feet he drove along slowly with the door stiff open. a cloud, the exact color of the boy’s hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car. mr. shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him. he raised his arm and let it fall again to his breast. “oh lord! ” he prayed. “break forth and wash the slime from this earth! ” the turnip continued slowly to descend. after a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of mr. shiftlet’s car. which is a metaphor?

In this excerpt, the line that has a metaphor is the one that says: "A cloud, the exact color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car."

Explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. In this case, the author uses the verb crouched to symbolize the movement of the cloud in the sky, but it is literally impossible for a cloud to crouch, it is a verb typically used to describe the movement made by a being that has legs because it is similar to the verb to huddle, or to cower.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.