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be Pizze King fora day. “So,” Jee says, “frst you get some flour on your hands, stretch the the ceiling, Are you reacy to try it?” Trabbec my hands with flour, stretched the dough, and tossed it right on to Joe’s head. He stood there like some snow-covered stetue waiting for the spring thaw. “Oh, no. Please, let me “ry again.” T helped Jee scrape the dough off his head while a small crowd gathered on the sidewalk to watch, Once again I made my 955 and this time I caught the doagh, but both hhaads went right through the center of it. Suddenly, I was a bullfighter wweving my doughy cape at the audience watcaing from the sidewalk. I ‘wesn't making mush in the way of pizze, but the sidewa k insiructers ting a good laugh. Joe fet me take home all the damaged pizza for my reward. ‘© stone Far“ TSensen 42 10328 1 Love Reading 1. Ldentify the followirg lines from the story as metaphors or similes. Metaphor. a dicect comparison between two unlike things. Example: Bobby is a movse. ‘Simile: an indicect comparison between two unlike things using the ‘words like, as, or as if to make the comparison. Example: Bobby is like a moase. __A. He was a magician who changed a tall of dough into a perfect... B. The flour is like a cloud just floating neat the ceiling. C. He stood there like some snow-covered statue... D. [wes a bullfigiter waving my doughy cape... 2. What do che similes and metaphors above suggest about the difficulty of making pizza? 3. Explain ow the simile “lsat in the corner ike some line first ‘grader kept in from recess” summarzes the narrator's feelings about his pizze-making experience, (© tnstuctonal Fat TS Cenison “3

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