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What two things are being compared in this simile? "Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl.

Clouds and batter

How do you know this text is a memoir?

Because it uses first-person pronouns

"I could see the rainstorm forming off in the distance but swirling rapidly toward me like a dark gray _______. (mass of snow, ice, dirt falling quickly down the side of a mountain)

insulate ethereal avalanche

My first thought was to shed a shirt and stay cool, but when I passed through the far curtain of the _______ air, I knew I had better do just the opposite." (to keep heat from passing through)

insulate avalance ethereal

"No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a _______ crakcle of lightning." (to break up)

splintery insulate ethereal

"It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so _____ that I could not put my finger on it." (light and airy)

ethereal avalanche splintery

"...enveloping me like a cocoon..."

simile

"Water streamed straight down and the wind shifted as the storm..."

alliteration

"The river sloshed over the side."

onomatopoeia

"slanted in a sharp edge"

alliteration

"rain came and poured down bucketfuls."

personification

The trees swooshed loudly..."

Onomatopoeia

The tips of the trees bent way over...like fishing rods hooked on a big one."

simile

As the snow fell, the forest wrapped itself in a white blanket and went to sleep.

personification

In Mississippi Solo, the writer considered the river to be...

friend

"... the far curtain of the insulated air,..."

metaphor

"Clouds rolled overhead in wild swirls like batter in a bowl."

simile