English Ten Period 2 Homework

English Ten Period 2 Homework Identifying Metaphors Directions: For each sentence below, identify the ideas or concepts being compared. Hint: each sentence may have more more than two ideas being compared. Example: Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life." --John 6:35 [ In this example, Jesus is being compared to bread. 1. Thus a mind that is free from passion is a very citadel. --Marcus Aurelius 2. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. --Joshua Reynolds 3. The fountain of knowledge will dry up unless it is continuously replenished by streams of new learning. 4. This first beam of hope that had ever darted into his mind rekindled youth in his cheeks and doubled the lustre of his eyes. --Samuel Johnson 5. I wonder when motor mouth is going to run out of gas. 6. His smile shines brightly each day. 7. The furnace of affliction had softened his heart and purified his soul.