Which excerpt from “the life you save may be your own” contains an example of a simile? after a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of mr. shiftlet’s car. “fifteen, sixteen,” the old woman said. the girl was nearly thirty but because of her innocence it was impossible to guess. “i was raised thataway and there ain’t a thing i can do about it. my old mother taught me how to do.” “that wouldn’t hardly pay for more than the gas and the hotel,” he said. “it wouldn’t feed her.”

The answer is: After a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet’s car.

A simile is a figure of speech used with the intention of making a comparison - stating a similarity - between two different things. The simile needs help, however, to make such comparison by using words such as "as" or "like". In that sense, it differs from the metaphor. The simile makes a direct comparison while the metaphor makes an indirect one.

An example of simile would be:

She read those books like she was devouring some meat after a three-day fast, so hungry was her mind for knowledge.

i know yall just want the answer so its A lol