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(100 points) "concrete mixers" by patricia hubbell the drivers are washing the concrete mixers; like elephant tenders they hose them down. tough gray-skinned monsters standing ponderous, elephant-bellied and elephant-nosed, standing in muck up to their wheel-caps, like rows of elephants, tail trunk. their drivers perch on their backs like mahouts, sending the sprays of water up. they rid the trunk-like trough of concrete, direct the spray to the bulging sides, turn and start the monsters moving. concrete mixers move like elephants bellow like elephants spray like elephants, concrete mixers are urban elephants, their trunks are raising a city. write a short essay in which you examine the figurative language in “concrete mixers.” explain what the concrete mixers are compared to, what the parts of the mixers are compared to, and what the drivers of the mixers are compared to. then, show how the comparisons are related. use details from the poem in your response. use the reading selection to you answer the question.

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