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Quiz about Famous Foggy Similes
Quiz about Famous Foggy Similes

Famous Foggy Similes Trivia Quiz


In literature, comparisons to fog may reveal a lot about character's states of mind. Often these are similes, i.e. the foggy day is like a maze. Sometimes, there is a metaphor, i.e. the foggy day is a maze. Foggy comparisons (both similes and metaphors).

A multiple-choice quiz by Windswept. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
Windswept
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
314,033
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
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Question 1 of 10
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."
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Question 2 of 10
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.
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Question 3 of 10
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."
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Question 4 of 10
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."
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Question 5 of 10
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."
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Question 6 of 10
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."
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Question 7 of 10
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."
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Question 8 of 10
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."
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Question 9 of 10
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."
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Question 10 of 10
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?
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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."

Answer: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

J. Alfred Prufrock is a modern anti-hero. He sees himself as no Hamlet, no prince, no hero. At the end, he knows himself growing old with "his trousers rolled." The fog at the beginning accentuates his mental confusion and cloudiness.
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.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout says this to Jem in Chapter 8 of "To Kill A Mockingbird" when there is a fire at Miss Maudie's. It is interesting to see Scout speak of "our house" in her desire to belong somewhere and have some sense of accuracy about the world in which she lives.
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."

Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Many of Huck's most important moments take place in the fog, in a moment when reality cannot be seen. The comparison to a dead man becomes increasingly important in the book. Here, Huck is sensing that in the fog he has no more intelligence than a dead man would. The fog comparison shows Huck how ignorant he feels about the world that he's in.
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."

Answer: Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. The entire simile is "Disorientation hung in my mind like a dense fog and I seemed to be unable to touch anyone or anything."

These fog comparisons usually show a person feeling separated from everything.
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."

Answer: San Francisco

Herb Caen writes here of what is called convection fog, a fog sometimes named "tule fog," which appears in winter clinging low and thick to the earth, thus greatly undermining visibility.
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."

Answer: Charles Dickens

The foggy opening of "Bleak House" is famous for its poignancy. It is also a kind of shield obscuring the dismalness of the bleak "house" in which its inhabitants live.

The following lines emphasize the bleakness of this world: "Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time - as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look."
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."

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

The famous novel is, of course, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." In case anyone does not know, this novel presents a case of dual personality: the evil Mr. Hyde and the seemingly benign Dr. Jekyll. Mr. Hyde commits atrocious acts of brutality against a young girl and an older man.

This is one of the first developments of the doppelganger motif with Freudian overtones of repression, the buried roles of the unconscious and an unusual "insanity."
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."

Answer: Carl Sandburg

"The Fog" makes the foggy comparison without the similes "like" or "as." It is figurative language--in this case, a metaphor. Figurative language is not literal. It makes leaps between "known", "reality", and something other than that.
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."

Answer: Joseph Conrad

Marlow in the book is a man obsessed with facts, with things like rivets. Of course, he is heading into a totally unfamiliar world of cannibalism, dark secrets, inexplicable actions, all of which become a fog in his overly literal understanding.
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?

Answer: very obvious

Similes are ways you can say just how you feel without having to spell it out in a lot of words.
Usually with similes, you can understand them easily simply by visualizing the scene in your mind.
Source: Author Windswept

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