What does the simile in this text suggest?
At an annual festival in Turkey, whirling dervishes practice a tradition of spinning like tops to commemorate the teachings of one of their spiritual leaders.
The dancers rotate rapidly. The dancers move like children.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that use language in a nonliteral or unusual way. They can make writing more expressive.
A simile uses like or as to compare two things that are not actually alike.
The cat's fur was as dark as the night.
The text includes a simile, using like or as to compare two things that are not actually alike.
The simile spin like tops suggests that the dancers rotate rapidly. A top rotates rapidly around a center.