Read the passage below and answer the question that follow.
In the Arabian desert there seems to be no pause between darkness and light--no
half-light time that one can call dawn. The sun jumps over the horizon without
warning. Like some half-crazed, shrieking giant it leaps out from behind the
endless sand dunes and ambushes you. It has you out in the open, vulnerable, and
it stands there all day thumping its chest on victory.
List the figures of speech that are used in the passage.
What is the sun compared to?
List the human characteristics or actions that are attributed to the sun.