Read the excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.”The ugly words settled in Mr. Shiftlet’s head like a group of buzzards in the top of a tree.The simile in this excerpt compares

A simile compares two things using words such as “like” or “as.” Here, “the ugly words” are said to settle in Mr. Shiftlet’s head “like a group of buzzards,” so the comparison is between the ugly words and the buzzards.

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