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What is the denotation of the word floats? | What is the connotation of the word floats?

A
to wander without direction
B
to rest on a liquid surface
C
to move in a relaxed way
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What is the denotation of the word floats? | What is the connotation of the word floats?

A
to wander without direction
B
to rest on a liquid surface
C
to move in a relaxed way
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What is the meaning of the metaphor?

A
You are like the sky.
B
Life is full of sunlight.
C
You make me happy.
4

Read the stanza. What is the figurative meaning of the phrase “floats downstream”?

A
has no worries
B
likes many things
C
needs few people
D
glides with the water
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What is the context of the passage? | What is being compared in the metaphor? | What is the meaning of the metaphor?

A
why the narrator does not like school
B
what makes the narrator happy or sad
C
how a friend gets on the narrator’s nerves
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What is being compared in the metaphor?

A
“you” and “my”
B
“you” and “sunshine”
C
“sunshine” and “life”

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