Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade - English Language - Similes Solution - MCQGeeks.com

Q.1.

Which of the following lines from Emily Dickinson's poem, 'A Bird came down the Walk', includes a simile?

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He glanced with rapid eyes
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That hurried all abroad
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They looked like frightened beads, I thought
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He stirred his velvet head

Q.2.

Which of the following lines from W.E. Henley's poem, 'Invictus', includes a simile?

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Out of the night that covers me
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Black as the pit from pole to pole
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I thank whatever gods may be
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For my unconquerable soul

Q.3.

Which of the following lines from D.H. Lawrence's poem, 'Gathering Leaves', contains a simile?

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Spades take up leaves
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No better than spoons
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And bags full of leaves
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Are as light as balloons

Q.4.

Which of the following lines from Edwin Muir's poem, 'The Horses', includes a simile?

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And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness
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The tractors lie about our fields; at evening
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They look like dank sea-monsters couched and waiting
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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?

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Slow, slow as a fish she came
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Swaying in a long wave
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Her skirts not touching a leaf
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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?

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As mute as monks, tidy as bachelors
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They manicure their little plots of earth
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Pop music from their little council house estate
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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?

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The bride hath paced into the hall
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Red as a rose is she
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Nodding their heads before her goes
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The merry minstrelsy

Q.8.

Which of the following lines from John Keats's poem, 'To Autumn', contains a simile?

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Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
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Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers
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And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
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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?

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And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide
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But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride
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And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf
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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?

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On one of the days to come
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The eye of the sea will darken
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In that hour all the mass of the earth
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Will be stretched out like a sail