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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by owls.....

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We keep telling you...all right moving on take a look at the following [Owl flies away]

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sentence every summer Helena became a night owl in the sentence what is

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compared to what and here are your potential answers..

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All righty well this sentence is using figurative language which means it's

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taking language outside of its literal meaning to create a mental picture and

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no we don't mean a picture of a brain though that is pretty we'd put it on our [Man with figurative language for a face painting a brain]

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fridge.. Let's take another look at the sentence here as we said sentences using

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figurative language which means it's not literally saying that come June Helena

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magically transforms into an owl even though that would be pretty cool [Helena transforms into an owl and flies away]

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instead a comparison is being made between Helena and a night owl

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specifically every summer Helena stays awake late at night just like owls do so [Helena sitting on a couch and an owl appears at the window]

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the comparison is being made between Helena and an owl which means option A

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is our correct answer and looky there we did it and we didn't even have to stay

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up as late as Helena to figure it out which is good because some of us need

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our beauty sleep [Helena falls asleep on the couch]

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