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"The world had lost its boundary lines. My mother, who was small and soft, was now the strength of the family; my father, who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child. Everything was suddenly out of tune, like a broken accordion. Where did I fit into this crazy picture?"

Identify an example of figurative language used in this paragraph and in about 75-100 words, discuss its meaning and impact.

Answer 1

My father who was the rock on which the family had been built, was sobbing like the tiniest child. This is an example of a simile. The author  is using the words like to describe to thoughts. The two thoughts would be "my father" and "tiniest child. Before it had stated that the father was a rock and now he was "sobbing like the tiniest child". The father is impacted by a certain situation that makes him emotionally unstable.