"Life is like a box of chocolates." Life is compared to...
What is chocolates?
100
Oink!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
"Where water is not thirsty/ and bread loaf is not stone" This metaphor talks about...
What is disappointment?
100
Raining cats and dogs is a metaphor describing...
What is hard rain?
200
Her eyes were like diamonds..
What is a simile
200
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. ~ Groucho Marx. A hospital bed is being compared to...
What something that costs money but does you no good?
200
Shadows crept through the window...
What is personification?
200
"Their wives run round like banshees" is an example of...
What is simile?
200
"Don't judge a book by it's cover." This is a metaphor that cautions us not to....
What is making judgements about people based on how they look.
300
Her hair was spun gold...
What is a metaphor
300
"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players" ~William Shakespeare. The world is being compared to...
What is a stage?
300
"With the veil over our eyes/ We turn our back on the cause" ~Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis
What is metaphor?
300
When the author says "their wives run round like banshees" she is comparing the wives to....
What is people who scream and nag all the time?
300
"Kicked the bucket" is a metaphor that means someone has...
What is died?
400
The broom danced over the floor.
What is neither....Bonus points for identifying it anyway.
400
He hasn't really dated anyone, yet. He's a late bloomer. The boy is being compared to...
What is a flower that takes longer than usual to bloom.
400
I'll be able to do it when pigs fly.
What is metaphor?
400
"They've got expensive doctors/ to cure their hearts of stone..." The author is saying their hearts are...
What is hard, not loving?
400
"Beating a dead horse" is a metaphor that means you are...
What is arguing about something long after you should have stopped because it's already been argued "to death?"
500
Life is like a box of chocolates.
What is simile.
500
"Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East..." ~ JM Barrie, Peter Pan. Her mind is being compared to...
What is a puzzle box?
500
I walked into the house and could smell the zesty aroma of fresh tomatoes cooking.
What is imagery?
500
"Storm clouds are gathering/ the winds are gonna blow..."
This is a metaphor talking about...