M/S/P
Trembling, he’d push himself up, turning first red, then a soft purple, and finally collapse back onto the bed like an old worn-out doll
Doodle to a worn-out doll
The [rain]drops stung my face like nettles
Crawling backward made him look like a doodlebug so I began to call him doodle
Crawling backward is strange meaning the baby itself is abnormal
John Collier wrote this story
The Chaser
How many Harry Potter movies have been made?
8
This dragon, they say his eyes are fire
Metaphor
pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death
Pride and a seed.
That afternoon [the tornado] roared back out of the west, blew the fallen oaks around, snapping their roots and tearing them out of the earth like a hawk at the entrails of a chicken
These two people run the lottery
Mr. Graves and Mr. Summers
This longest running animated show is over 35 years old, even though the residents are yellow
The Simpsons
His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm
Personification and Simile
During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position
Cars to insects (scarab beetles)
he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
His vapored breath looks like he is smoking because it is so cold.
Diana Moon Glampers is the Handicapper General in this story
Harrison Bergeron
This trio knows the meaning of "no worries," or Hakuna Matata
Pumbaa, Timon, Simba
It was an enemy car. He wanted to fire, but he knew it was useless. His bullets would never pierce the steel that covered the gray monster
Car to a gray monster
On the instant, the dragon rounded a hill. Its monstrous amber eye fed on them, fired their armour in red glints and glitters. With a terrible wailing cry and a grinding rush it flung itself forward.
Dragon's eye cannot feed nor fire
The town was like a picture postcard of a Northern scene, what with icicles sparkling whitely on the trees and frost flowers coating all windowpanes
The small town is picturesque and everything is dream-like perfection
This author wrote Lamb to the Slaughter (along with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Fantastic Mr. Fox / and James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
This Van Gogh painting is the most reprinted work of art.
Starry Night
“I was about to speak further, when I observed the wild oats near the place of the disturbance moving in the most inexplicable way. I can hardly describe it. It seemed as if stirred by a streak of wind, which not only bent it, but pressed it down
Simile
At either end of the scale are notes that stir no chord of that imperfect instrument, the human ear.
Human Ear to an instrument
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil
Doodle and his brother spend most of their childhood in this swamp
Old Woman Swamp
Patrick Star asks if these are instruments in the episode titled "Band Geeks"
Mayonnaise and Horseradish