Metaphors
You light up my life
You bring me joy
Life is like a...
...box of chocolates
If it ain’t broke,.....
...don’t fix it
I have no life but I can die
A battery
The Tortoise and the Hare
a slow and steady approach (symbolized by the Tortoise) is better than a hasty and overconfident approach (symbolized by the Hare).
If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog
Very witty/clever guy
He is as cool as....
.. a cucumber
Don’t fire till...
...you see the whites of their eyes
What gets bigger the more you take away?
A hole
The Sneeches by Dr. Suess
Allegory for racism and other forms of prejudice. The story is all about creatures who are treated as inferior because they don’t have stars on their bellies.
Mr. Neck stormed into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags
Teacher has in it for the pupils!
They fought like...
...cats and dogs
The proof of the pudding....
....is in the eating
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
The Lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
Religious (Christian) allegory. Aslan the lion represents Christ or God, the White Witch represents evil, and Edmund represents Judas as the betrayer
DAILY DOUBLE!
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
Don’t feel right, not at ease, anxious.
LOTR
Well, that went over like...
...a lead balloon
Genius is 1% inspiration ..
....and 99% perspiration
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
Lord of the flies
Allegory about society and the fragility of civilization. The island represents the whole world, the conch stands for law and order, and the fire represents both hope and destruction.
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”
Juliet is beautiful
She’s as nutty as ...
....a fruitcake
You can fool some of the people ….
..all of the time, and all people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time
There are 5 sisters in a room. Blanche is reading a book. Corine is knitting. Marie is playing chess. June is watching TV. What is the 5th sister doing?
Playing chess with Marie
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1905 Russian Revolution. Pigs represent Communist leaders like Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky, the dogs represent the KGB, the humans represent capitalists, the horses represent the working class, etc.