Read this excerpt from a poem.The teacher called her nameThe sound was an alarmIt prickled every hairAnd jangled every nerve Which line contains a metaphor?

A metaphor directly describes one thing as another to suggest a similarity. “The sound was an alarm” compares the teacher calling the name to an alarm, without using “like” or “as.” The line “The teacher called her name” is literal, while the other lines describe the sound’s effects.

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