Whenever you have a question like this where you must identify
literary terms, you need to find the phrase that you are focusing on in the poem and look at the
words surrounding it both before and after to try and establish the context. This will greatly
help you work out what the simile is comparing and how that comparison is established. Let us
look at the context of this phrase:
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a
whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a
thistle.
This part of the poem comes
atter St. Nicholas has delivered his presents and toys and has ascended the chimney and leaps on
to his sleigh and leaves. Thus the simile relates to the speed of the reindeer as they fly away
and the ease with which they can fly.
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