SIMILES

Question 1

“He was like a gem sparkling

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in it’s gold setting, an adornment for a head or neck”

Question 2

“He was like the morning star

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which Venus loves above all other starry fires”

Question 3

“When Indian Ivory has been

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stained with blood red die”

Question 4

“Like bees at the

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beginning of summer, busy in the sunshine”

Question 5

“Bees, alarmed for their safety,

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rush in all directions through their wax-built camp”

Question 6

“Mars, splattered with blood, charges along

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the banks of the icy river… giving reign to his furious horses as he stirs up war”

Question 7

“Diana, leading the dance on the banks of the Eurotas…

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a thousand mountain nymphs thronging behind her”

Question 8

“like fires started

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in different places in a dry wood”

Question 9

“the herd stands silent and afraid

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and the heifers low quietly together, waiting to see who is to rule the grove”

Question 10

“The stag is terrified by the ambush he is

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caught in or by the high river bank”

Question 11

“The jaws snap shut

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but he is thwarted and bites the empty air”

Question 12

“Like opposing winds…

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equal in their spirit and equal in strength”

Question 13

“like an ancient ash tree high in the mountain which farmers

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have hacked with blow upon blow”

Question 14

“A wild boar… driven down from the mountains

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with the dogs snapping at him… no one has the courage to clash with him”

Question 15

“A ravening lion… driven mad by the pangs of

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hunger… fastens on the flesh with foul gore washing his pitiless mouth”

Question 16

“Coming into his first battle, bellowing fearfully

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and gathering his anger into his horns by going at a tree trunk”

Question 17

“who does not move into battle until

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he has received a great wound in his chest from the hunters and revels in it”

Question 18

“We dream we are trying desperately to

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run further and not succeeding”

Question 19

the strength

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we know we have fails our body”

Question 20

“just as a boulder comes crashing down

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from the top of a mountain”

Question 21

“Like a lion who had seen from some high vantage point

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a bull practicing for combat far away on the plain”

Question 22

“When a cloud blots out the sun

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and begins to move from mid ocean towards the land”

Question 23

“Aegeon, who they say

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had 100 arms and 100 hands, with fire flaming from 50 breasts and mouths”

Question 24

“Like the gloomy bold red glow of a comet

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on a nights sky, or the dismal blaze of Sirius the dog star”

Question 25

“The north winds off the alps vie with eachother

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to uproot the mighty oak who’s timber has hardened over long years of life”

Question 26

“Like Apollo leaving his winter home…

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to visit his mother at Delos”

Question 27

His streaming hair

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caught up in a soft garland of green”

Question 28

like wolves foraging blindly

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on a misty night, driven out of their lairs by ravening hunger”

Question 29

“like a wounded doe which a shepherd hunting in the woods

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has caught off guard, striking her from long range with a steal tipped shaft”

Question 30

“the arrow flies and is left

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in her body without his knowing it”