Personification
The skyscraper was so tall that it seemed to kiss the sky
What is the skyscraper kissed?
At exam time, the high school student was as busy as a bee.
What is student to a busy bee?
Her voice is music to his ears.
What is her voice to music?
“Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers.”
What are the "s" and "w"
“This place is like a Garden of Eden.”
What is the biblical reference of The Garden of Eden?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
What is Death stopped for me?
The boys in the playing field were feeling as happy as dogs with two tails
What are the boys to dogs with to tails.
The assignment was a breeze
What is the assignment to a breeze?
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe"
What are the "s" and "f"
“Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?”
Who is the famous scientist Issac Newton?
There was a heavy thunderstorm, the wind snorted outside, rattling my windowpanes.
What is the wind snorting?
“Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa.”
What are elderly ladies to the towers of Pisa?
Life is a highway
I wanna ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I wanna drive it all night long
What is life to a highway?
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
What are the "f" and the "l"
The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.
What is the Greek myth of Pandora's box?
“Pearl Button swung on the little gate in front of the House of Boxes. It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek in it.”
What is winds playing hide-and-seek
“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.”
What is her soul to a small bird?
“Her mouth was a fountain of delight. And when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.”
What is her mouth to a fountain?
The type of alliteration this is:
But a better butter makes a batter better.
What is a tongue twister?
When Steven walked out, it was obvious that Goliath was now on the field.
Who is Goliath from the biblical story of David and Goliath?
“When well-appareled April on the heel
Of limping winter treads.”
What is April being well-appareled and Winter limping?
“O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.”
What is Luve to a rose and melodie?
“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you …
What is you to the moon and the sun?
“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”
What are the "b" "f" and "s"?
The prices have gone so high that a common thing like bread has become forbidden fruit.
What is forbidden fruit, a biblical allusion