Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. He's the apple of her eye.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. My name is mud ever since I caused all that trouble at school.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Peter is all thumbs; he just spilt my drink.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Mary tried to pull the wool over my eyes.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. He lived his life in the fast lane.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. These children are rug rats.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. 'Necessity is the mother of invention.'

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. Andrew has decided to turn over a new leaf this year.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. She has half-baked ideas and nothing more.

Find the 'hidden' meaning of the given metaphor. My boyfriend showered me with gifts.

'Sky a tense diaphragm / Dusk hung like a backcloth / That shook where a swan swam' - Which metaphor has Seamus Heaney used in these lines from his poem, 'Twice Shy'?

'I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, / Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. / Leaving behind nights of terror and fear / I rise / Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear / I rise' - Maya Angelou uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'Still I Rise'?

'With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.' Which of the following is NOT described metaphorically in Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech?

'Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle, / Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. / Thirty years now I have labored / To dredge the silt from your throat' - Sylvia Plath uses which metaphor in these lines from her poem, 'The Colossus'?

'She was very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head, and her lips were parted.' - What is described metaphorically in this passage about Curley's wife, from John Steinbeck's ?

'But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! - Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon' - What (or who) does Romeo describe metaphorically in this speech from Shakespeare's ?

'To any who had observed him before he lost his gold, it might have seemed that so withered and shrunken a life as his could hardly be susceptible of a bruise, could hardly endure any subtraction but such as would put an end to it altogether.' - What does George Eliot describe metaphorically in this excerpt from her book, ?

'While horse and hero fell / They that had fought so well / Came thro' the jaws of Death' - What metaphor has Alfred Lord Tennyson used in these lines from his poem, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?

'My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow' - Which metaphor has Andrew Marvell used in these lines from his poem 'To His Coy Mistress'?

'Bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.' - What (or who) is described metaphorically in this passage from Harper Lee's ?