Simile Practice - Vignette #8 - Homework

Highlight ONE of the similes in the below extract, and then explain how the comparison illustrates the effect on the narrator's emotions. 

"Then he starts it up and all sorts of things start happening. It's like all of a sudden he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture and swan-neck shadows and in our bones. It's like drops of water. Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb" (Cisneros 20). 

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