pair of boots in 13, two pairs of shoes in trade number.
5. Pola's eyes were dark universes, moist- and tear-filled.
6. The Trafalgar Square crowds swallowed him up.
7. She rushed downstairs out of the front door, then kicked and punched her way through the waiting journalists, sending several of them leaping for safety as the car stormed down the drive. "Nice, quiet girl," said Mail on Sunday picking himself out of the snow.
8. The soft snow turned the already frozen streets of Manhattan to gray slush and the icy December wind herded the Christmas shoppers toward the comfort of their apartments and houses.
9. Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature.
10. At ten minutes before eleven in the morning the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti instantly blanketing the city.
11. As Prew listened the mobile face before him melted to a battle blackened skull as though a flame-thrower has passed over it, kissed it lightly and moved on. The skull talked on to him about his health,
12. Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once.
13. She scrutinized the others with lightning speed. A Searat. A Sezanne. A Gauguin,
14. Mr. Smeeth was sitting on the same side as the glass eye ...
15. The wind moaned through the cypress trees, scattering rain across the path.
16. Women's tennis is the biggest firestorm blowing through sport,
17. I went around an elbow of wail to the foot of tailed stairs and the shaft of the automatic elevator.
18. He was near the front, almost at the till now and sandwiched between two strapping blonds.
19. She still had a great quantity of untidy brown hair, a bright blue eye, rosy cheeks and a ripe moist lip.
20. The snowflakes were more goosedown than snow, as the wind blew in angry gusts, getting angrier by the minute.
21. Staying in touch after the candle of romance has dimmed, or gone out, only prolongs the hurt, I have always felt.
22. An hour and three speeches later, his stomach was beginning to wonder if his throat had been cut.
23. Time was a swiftly flying river that had no shores, no boundaries: its seasons were not winter, spring, fall or summer, but birthdays and joys and troubles and pain.
Exercise 2. Point out metaphors and define the ground of comparison in the following examples.
1. Herds of black-and-white cows drinking their reflections.
2. Farm wives unbuttoning peas on the porch.
3 Old farms sagging into the arms of time.
4. Bees vacuuming the apple blossoms.
5. Ocean slopping a white mop against the ragged land.
6. A lovely sun-washed day
7. I {eat waves belly dancing over the highway;
8. Regiments of com waving their arms for attention/
9. A small boy tongue-lashing an ice-cream cone.
10. Icicles weeping at the departure of winter.
11. Expressionless pumpkins waiting for face lifts.
12. Broken shutters applauding the change of seasons.
13. Trees whispering an answer to the question of the wind.
14. A million diamonds winter-flung, upon a carpet white.
Exercise 3. Analyse the following cases of personification.
1. They trooped silently into the drawing room, which did not seem particularly pleased to see them.
2. The morning smiled upon him ... no fog, snow, rain, but a slight sparkle, a nip of frost and the early ghost of a sun.
3. The ship, for her part, began to think about discharging her mixed cargo
4. The stars winked down their cryptic morse and he had no key to their cipher.
5. Both the blind eyes and the lighted eyes of its innumerable windows seemed to answer his stare and to tell him that he did not amount the very much not here in London.
6. The theatres and picture houses shouted to him their knowledge of girls and love.
7. This treacherous Saturday was destined to give him a series of shocks, of varying degrees of severity.
8. Turgis said nothing, but he had no need to, for his face replied for hum.
9. Good lick to St. Paul's! It did not challenge him; it was simply there, keeping an eye on everything but interfering with nobody.
10. The dark mouth of the tunnel beneath it opened and swallowed him
11. The wind moaned through the cypress trees, scattering rain across the path.
12. The streets were deserted and it was very cool, with an irritable
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