Part I. Read the sentences carefully, then identify the analogy used to describe or make a point in each item. Underline .
1. That baby is as good as gold. *
That baby
baby is good
good as gold
2. Her voice was music to his ears. *
music to ears
Her voice
voice was music
3. America is a melting pot. *
America
melting pot
America is a melting pot.
4. It is hot as an oven in here. *
It is hot.
oven in here
hot as an oven
5. He is as strong as an ox. *
strong as an ox
He is an ox.
He is strong.
6. She is as light as a feather. *
She is a feather.
light as a feather
She is light.
7. He saw the problem as a speed bump, not a roadblock. *
He saw roadblock.
He saw the problem, a roadblock.
speed bump
8. That is as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. *
That is as useful.
as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
rearranging the deck chairs
9. That movie was a roller coaster ride of emotions. *
roller coaster ride of emotions
That movie was a roller coaster.
That movie was an emotion.
10. Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you are going to get. *
box of chocolates
Life is like a chocolate.
You never know what you are going to get.
Part II: Tell whether the meaning of the analogy used stated below is correct or incorrect. Right CORRECT if it is the meaning, WRONG if it is not. Write on the space provided before each the number.
___________11. Mary had a little lamb; her fleece was white as snow. • The lamb’s fleece is compared to the color of snow. *
___________ 12. She was as quiet as a church mouse. • She is a mouse living in a church. *
___________ 13. That couple is sweet as sugar. • The couple tastes like sugar. *
___________ 14. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. - Proverbs 25:25 • This analogy is comparing good news you have been waiting for, to the sensation of cool water finally slipping down a parched throat. *
___________ 15. She felt like a raft floating in the middle of a dark, endless ocean. Like her, the raft was floating along, alone, worn out, and unable to reach a steady place in which to settle. • She feels really happy. *
___________ 16. If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. Peter De Vriesfood! (Patton Oswald, Obituaries) • There is no secret in life. *
__________ 17. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish that is still alive and may jump back into the water. (George Orwell, A Hanging) • Orwell is describing the crowd’s reaction to seeing a man hanged. *
__________ 18. “Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result, they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, despite themselves.” (Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder) • A giant rolling a snowball down the hill–the results are quite unpredictable, but inevitable
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