Palette held hues, a rainbow.

Meaning: The artist had many different colors on their palette, like a rainbow.

Choice of Words: Palette refers to the surface where artists mix colors. Hues are the different shades and tones of a color. Rainbow evokes the image of a colorful spectrum.

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The palette was filled with colors, like a rainbow.

Meaning: This means that the palette had all the colors that you need to make any color you want.

Choice of Words: A palette is a board where you put paints and mix them to create colors. Colors are the different shades and hues that you can see. A rainbow is a curved line in the sky that has all the colors of the spectrum. So, the sentence is saying that the palette had all the different colors that you would see in a rainbow.

The palette had all the colors, just like a rainbow.

Meaning: This means that the palette had all the colors that you need to make any color you want.

Choice of Words: A palette is a board where you put paints and mix them to create colors. All the colors means that the palette had every single color that you could imagine. A rainbow is a curved line in the sky that has all the colors of the spectrum. So, the sentence is saying that the palette had all the different colors that you would see in a rainbow.

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