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1. Write your Group No and members' names at the top of your post.
2. Keep your answer concise.

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1. Reflects a clear comparison.
2.  Is accurate in explanation.
3. Uses signal words in its structure, to bring out the similarity.

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Just as purgatory is an intermediate state after death for purification, the hotel lobby was also a temporary transitional place for the Syrian refugees to stay at after a disaster, until they found a new home with the foster families.

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Just as a mosquito bite is a slight annoyance or inconvenience with no lasting outcomes, the episode with the censorship board was also just a temporary inconvenience, with nothing negative or lasting that came out of it.

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An elixir is a healing potion. Just like how one gets better drinking a healing potion, writing her novel for the author was how she recuperated with the stresses of developing the English Language syllabus for schools at work.

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Just as an elixir can cure one’s illnesses, writing her novel also kept the author’s health in check from the daily stresses of work life.

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Just like one drinks a elixir, a healing potion, to feel better, the writer also uses writing her novel as something to recuperate from her stresses

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Business transactions
- monetary benefits
- trading
- meet mutual benefits

Possible explanations
- child marriages
- Royal marriages (to make peace across nations)
- give themselves in due to financial difficulties

Just like business transactions, this marriages are used to gain monetary benefits settle debts/be a form of compensation for debts.

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Just like an elixir which can help to cure people or serve as a form of medicine, writing the novel similarly cured the writer of her dreariness and dullness of her work.

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Just as a funnel is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom just like how many people from different places similarly gather together and merge as the path narrows.

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Just like a mosquito bite which is insignificant and not serious, the conflict between the writer and the Ministry of Education regarding the censorship of her novel was only a passing matter that did not have any damaging or lasting consequences on her career.

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Just like a purgatory is a temporary place of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven, Just like the sinners, the newly arrived Syrians see the lobby is also a transitional place of suffering because there are for many people in the lobby that experienced a disaster. It is also because they have suffered a disaster before getting to go to a place of refuge. Hence, the lobby is like a purgatory.

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just as a purgatory was a temporary place for people to stay, it suggest that the lobby was a transitional place for the syrian refugees before being fostered by a family

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Just as a funnel is wide at the bottom one end and narrow at the top other, the group of people who came for the wedding from all directions at the start, had to converge into a narrow group in order to get further up the rocky path, as they near the wedding venue.

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a purgatory is a place for souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven. the author describes the hotel lobby as a purgatory as it is a temporary place for the syrians to seek refuge, after going though hardship of war.

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an elixir is a magical potion, one with healing remedies. writing of her novel allows the author to relieve stress from her daily work routines.

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a mosquito bite is uncomfortable but temporary and does not have any severe outcomes. this shows that the episode regarding the censorship of her novel did not cause her any terrible consequences, though it was unpleasant.

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a business transaction usually involves monetary benefits, and usually objects are traded in the process, not humans. however, the author associates child marriage as a business transaction as the children are objectified and married off for monetary gains.

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a funnel is wide at the top but has a narrow tip, just like the guests gathering towards the wedding venue