Q.1
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. He's the apple of her eye.
  • He's like an apple
  • She would like to eat him because he looks like an apple
  • She adores him
  • She thinks he is evil
Q.2
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. My name is mud ever since I caused all that trouble at school.
  • He has been shamed
  • He has changed his name to mud
  • He likes mud because he behaves badly
  • Mud is his nickname
Q.3
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Peter is all thumbs; he just spilt my drink.
  • Peter has no fingers - only two thumbs
  • Peter is clumsy
  • Peter only uses his thumbs to pick things up
  • Peter knocked the drink over with his thumb
Q.4
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Mary tried to pull the wool over my eyes.
  • Mary tries to pull his woolen cap over his eyes
  • Mary tried to cover his eyes with wool
  • Mary is teasing him
  • Mary tried to deceive him
Q.5
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. He lived his life in the fast lane.
  • He lived in a car which he always drove fast
  • He's a racing driver
  • He drives fast
  • He lived a life full of excitement and activity
Q.6
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. These children are rug rats.
  • The children are playing at being rats on the rug
  • The children can't walk yet
  • The children spend a lot of time sitting on rugs
  • The children are like rats
Q.7
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'
  • Someone's mother is a good inventor
  • Someone's mother has to invent something
  • Mothers are good inventors
  • If you really want to do something very much, you will think of a way to do it
Q.8
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Andrew has decided to turn over a new leaf this year.
  • Andrew turned over a new page in his book
  • Andrew changed his behavior for the better
  • Andrew changed his behavior for the worse
  • Andrew turned over a leaf that had just fallen from a tree
Q.9
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. She has half-baked ideas and nothing more.
  • Her ideas are not thought out enough
  • She likes cooking, but she isn't very good at it
  • She doesn't bake very well
  • She cooks better than she bakes
Q.10
Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. My boyfriend showered me with gifts.
  • Her boyfriend made her take a shower with his gifts
  • Her boyfriend threw gifts at her
  • Her boyfriend gave her endless loads of gifts
  • Her boyfriend took a shower with her gifts
Q.11
'Sky a tense diaphragm / Dusk hung like a backcloth / That shook where a swan swam' - Which metaphor has Seamus Heaney used in these lines from his poem, 'Twice Shy'?
  • Dusk is a theater
  • Dusk is a photography studio
  • Swans are the dusk
  • The sky is a tense muscle in motionless anticipation
Q.12
'I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, / Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. / Leaving behind nights of terror and fear / I rise / Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear / I rise' - Maya Angelou uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'Still I Rise'?
  • The speaker (the narrator) is the night
  • The speaker is fear
  • The speaker is the sea
  • The speaker is the setting sun
Q.13
'With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.' Which of the following is NOT described metaphorically in Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech?
  • Faith
  • Despair
  • A nation
  • A symphony
Q.14
'Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, / Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. / Thirty years now I have labored / To dredge the silt from your throat' - Sylvia Plath uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'The Colossus'?
  • The person being addressed is an oracle
  • The person being addressed is a god
  • The speaker (narrator) is a god
  • The throat of the person being addressed is a blocked river channel
Q.15
'She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.' - What is described metaphorically in this passage about Curley's wife, from John Steinbeck's ?
  • Curley's wife's lips
  • Curley's wife's hair
  • Curley's wife's cheeks
  • Curley's wife's eyes
Q.16
'But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! - Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon' - What (or who) does Romeo describe metaphorically in this speech from Shakespeare's ?
  • The light
  • Juliet
  • The Sun
  • All of the above
Q.17
'To any who had observed him before he lost his gold, it might have seemed that so withered and shrunken a life as his could hardly be susceptible of a bruise, could hardly endure any subtraction but such as would put an end to it altogether.' - What does George Eliot describe metaphorically in this excerpt from her book, ?
  • A man's life
  • A man's gold
  • A robbery
  • A bruise
Q.18
'While horse and hero fell / They that had fought so well / Came thro' the jaws of Death' - What metaphor has Alfred Lord Tennyson used in these lines from his poem, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?
  • Horses are heroes
  • Heroes and horses both are falling debris
  • Death is a devouring beast
  • All of the above
Q.19
'My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow' - Which metaphor has Andrew Marvell used in these lines from his poem 'To His Coy Mistress'?
  • His love is an empire
  • His love is a living, growing organism
  • His love is weak
  • His love is rotten
Q.20
'Bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.' - What (or who) is described metaphorically in this passage from Harper Lee's ?
  • The mules
  • The men
  • The collars
  • The ladies
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