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1. This is our first fog moment. Can you tell what famous poem this is from? Think of a speaker who sees himself as pinned against a wall. The author created the famous poem of a modern wasteland.
Here the yellow fog here suddenly becomes a cat. What is the famous poem which speaks of the loneliness of a generation?
"The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening...
Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,
Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap...
Curled once about the house, and fell asleep."
2. Here is a simile--"like fog off a riverbank."
"Smoke was rolling off our house and Miss Rachel's house like fog off a riverbank..."
What book is this from? Note: the movie starred Gregory Peck.
3. This foggy scene comes from the journey novel about a capable young boy and Jim who used to be a slave. What famous novel is this from? Remember at the end the young hero famously "lights out" for the territory.
"As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy....the minute I flew by the foot of it I shot out into the solid white fog, and hadn't no more idea which way I was going than a dead man."
4. Here is a simile which comes from the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Who is it?
"Disorientation hung in my mind like a dense fog."
5. This is a simile about being in a city famous for its fogs. What city is this? Think of hills, hills like Nob Hill, Telegraph Hill, all perched at an angle with the fog filling in and enveloping them.
"When the city is all covered with fog, it's like living inside a great gray pearl."
6. This is from the opening of 'Bleak House,' a novel by one of Britain's most famous British writers. Who is this prolific writer?
"Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy."
7. Now, this very famous fog moment comes from a famous novel about a couple of men, men always spoken about together. It is written by a writer who ended his life living in Samoa. This novel is a internationally famous psychological thriller. Who is the writer?
"The next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings. This was the home of Henry Jekyll's favourite; of a man who was heir to a quarter of a million sterling."
8. Who is the author of this world famous poem comparing fog to a cat? Note this writer wrote a lot of Chicago as well.
"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
The fog comes in
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."
9. Here the fog appears again in another adventure. This time it is Marlow's quest up river to find a man named Kurtz. This novella became later on a movie called "Apocalypse Now."
"When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night. It did not shift or drive; it was just there, standing all round you like something solid."
10. Now, this is a simile from the famous Raymond Chandler. There is no fog here, but the question is asking you to explain a simile--the comparison, now that you're more of an expert in comparisons and similes and fogs after taking this quiz.
"Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food."
When it says he looked "about as inconspicuous," how does he really look on Central Avenue?
Source: Author
Windswept
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