Select the choice that best describes the author's use of figurative language in the sentence below.
"i felt like a quickly melting snowman under the glare of all those watching eyes."
a. the author uses personification to give a snowman human feelings.
b. the author uses a metaphor to compare being on a stage to being a snowman.
c. the author uses a simile to compare the feeling of nervousness to melting.
d. the author uses a metaphor to compare the cool feeling of standing on stage to snow.

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.