Tell Whether The Meaning Of The Analogy Used Stated Below Is Correct Or Incorrect. Right Correct If

Tell whether the meaning of the analogy used stated below is correct or incorrect. Right CORRECT if it is the meaning, WRONG if it is not. Write on the space provided before each the number.

___________11. Mary had a little lamb; her fleece was white as snow. • The lamb’s fleece is compared to the color of snow. *


___________ 12. She was as quiet as a church mouse. • She is a mouse living in a church. *


___________ 13. That couple is sweet as sugar. • The couple tastes like sugar. *


___________ 14. "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. - Proverbs 25:25 • This analogy is comparing good news you have been waiting for, to the sensation of cool water finally slipping down a parched throat. *


___________ 15. She felt like a raft floating in the middle of a dark, endless ocean. Like her, the raft was floating along, alone, worn out, and unable to reach a steady place in which to settle. • She feels really happy. *


___________ 16. If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. Peter De Vriesfood! (Patton Oswald, Obituaries) • There is no secret in life. *


__________ 17. They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish that is still alive and may jump back into the water. (George Orwell, A Hanging) • Orwell is describing the crowd’s reaction to seeing a man hanged. *


__________ 18. “Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result, they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, despite themselves.” (Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder) • A giant rolling a snowball down the hill–the results are quite unpredictable, but inevitable

 

Answer:

11. CORRECT

12.WRONG

13.WRONG

14.CORRECT.

15.WRONG

16.WRONG

17.CORRECT

18.CORRECT

Explanation

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