Q.1
Which of the following lines from Emily Dickinson's poem, 'A Bird came down the Walk', includes a simile?
  • He glanced with rapid eyes
  • That hurried all abroad
  • They looked like frightened beads, I thought
  • He stirred his velvet head
Q.2
Which of the following lines from W.E. Henley's poem, 'Invictus', includes a simile?
  • Out of the night that covers me
  • Black as the pit from pole to pole
  • I thank whatever gods may be
  • For my unconquerable soul
Q.3
Which of the following lines from D.H. Lawrence's poem, 'Gathering Leaves', contains a simile?
  • Spades take up leaves
  • No better than spoons
  • And bags full of leaves
  • Are as light as balloons
Q.4
Which of the following lines from Edwin Muir's poem, 'The Horses', includes a simile?
  • And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness
  • The tractors lie about our fields; at evening
  • They look like dank sea-monsters couched and waiting
  • We leave them where they are and let them rust
Q.5
Which of the following lines from Theodore Roethke's poem, 'The Visitant', includes a simile?
  • Slow, slow as a fish she came
  • Swaying in a long wave
  • Her skirts not touching a leaf
  • Her white arms reaching towards me
Q.6
Which of the following lines from U.A. Fanthorpe's poem, 'Men on Allotments', includes a simile?
  • As mute as monks, tidy as bachelors
  • They manicure their little plots of earth
  • Pop music from their little council house estate
  • Counterpoints with the Sunday-morning bells
Q.7
Which of the following lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', contains a simile?
  • The bride hath paced into the hall
  • Red as a rose is she
  • Nodding their heads before her goes
  • The merry minstrelsy
Q.8
Which of the following lines from John Keats's poem, 'To Autumn', contains a simile?
  • Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
  • Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers
  • And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
  • Steady thy laden head across a brook
Q.9
Which of the following lines from Lord Byron's poem, 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', includes a simile?
  • And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide
  • But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride
  • And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf
  • And cold as the spray of the rock-beating turf
Q.10
Which of the following lines from Dahlia Ravikovich's poem, 'The Blue West', includes a simile?
  • On one of the days to come
  • The eye of the sea will darken
  • In that hour all the mass of the earth
  • Will be stretched out like a sail
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