Passage Picker

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"This was actually...like a lump of lead."

This passage is a simile type of passage because the author compares the peach falling to the ground to a lump of lead and he uses the word like to do this.

Thinking Question

Think of another simile that you could use to describe the peach in this section.

The peach was as round as a basketball.

Why did the author include this passage in the story?

The author uses this simile to describe the peach so that the reader gets a clear vision of how the peach fell to the ground.  The huge peach fell hard just like a lump of lead would if it was dropped from the sky.