Read the mentor text below and label the simile, metaphor, idiom, and personification. Sitting in the passenger seat of her dad’s SUV, Sofia fidgeted restlessly, butterflies in her stomach. “Please don’t make me go to school,” she begged her dad for the twentieth time that morning.

“Sweetie, you’ll be just fine. Kids transfer schools mid-year all the time! It’s going to be a piece of cake!” said her dad with an exasperated sigh.

“Dad, you never understand! It’s like talking to a brick wall,” Sofia whined.

“What are you talking about? I’m all ears!” her dad retorted. “I’ve been listening to you complain all morning. Go ahead. Tell me again, why you don’t want to go to school.”

“I don’t know anyone at Mountainview Middle School! I’m going to end up eating lunch all by myself and be as lonely as a single ship at sea! And to top it all off, I have a history class first period. It’s going to be sss boring!”

“Sofia, now you’re just exaggerating,” said her dad as they turned left into Mountainview Middle School’s parking lot.

“Whatever,” Sofia muttered, slamming the car door behind her without even a goodbye to her dad. Her feet, blocks of cement, weighed her down as she trudged toward the font office, the stairs groaning with each step she took.