Decide whether the following is a simile, metaphor, or neither.
his lips were red as rubies.
simile
metaphor
neither

A) Simile.

Explanation: A simile is a figure of speech that consists in making a comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, this comparison is made using the words "like" and "as." A metaphor is also a comparison, but it is direct, without using the words "like" or "as." In the given sentence we can see an example of a simile that compares the color of someone's lips to rubies.

for this case, we must find the number of deaths per day of the year 2015, in automobile accidents, knowing that 32,400 people died.

knowing that the year 2015 had 365 days we have the following division:

where "x" represents the number of deaths per day.

rounding off we have:

approximately, 89 people per day died in 2015

answer:

89 people per day

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