Choosethree metaphors and explain what two items the author is comparing and what the metaphor means to you. Then write one metaphor of your own (separate from your partner).
With the metaphors below, you don’t have to rewrite the metaphor, just reference the number.
EX. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. William Shakespeare
This example metaphor (provide number here) is comparing ordinary people to actors and everyday life to a play. This means that we’re all playing a role in the production of LIFE.
- Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso - All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein - Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan - All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil Gibran - If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa - A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx - A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin - Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust - Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell - Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson - Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth - Conscience is a man’s compass. Vincent Van Gogh
Choose three similes and explain what the author is comparing and what the simile means. Then write one simile of your own. You don’t have to rewrite the simile, just reference the number.
1. “. . . she tried to get rid of the kitten which had scrambled up her back and stuck like a burr just out of reach.” — Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
2. “Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I’m nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.” — The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
3. “Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East . . .” — Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie.
4. “. . . and snow lay here and there in patches in the hollow of the banks, like a lady’s gloves forgotten.” — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, by R. D. Blackmore
5. “I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.” — Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
6. “. . . utterly absorbed by the curious experience that still clung to him like a garment.” — Magnificent Obsession, by Lloyd C. Douglas
7. “She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, out of its coop.” — The Adventure of the Three Gables, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. “Past him, ten feet from his front wheels, flung the Seattle Express like a flying volcano.” — Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis
9. “Her father had inherited that temper; and at times, like antelope fleeing before fire on the slope, his people fled from his red rages.” — Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey
10. “The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.” — Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
11. “Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa.” — Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
12. “The water made a sound like kittens lapping.” — The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
13. “Kate inched over her own thoughts like a measuring worm.” — East of Eden, by John Steinbeck