"Her hair was a rainbow of colors, and she walked with the sure-footed grace of a ballerina gliding across a stage hoping to bat a thousand with the audience." This is an example of
A) Similes
B) Mixed metaphors
C) Alliteration
D) All of the above

Question

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The sentence combines unrelated metaphors (hair like a rainbow, moving like a ballerina, hoping to bat a thousand), which makes it an example of mixed metaphors, not similes, alliteration, or all of the above.

"Her Hair Was a Rainbow of Colors, and She Walked