Metaphor quiz

Laughter is the music of the soul

Laughter touches the emotions in your brain, increasing certain "feel good" chemicals in the brain, similar to when you eat chocolate.

Music is as good as laughter is

Music sounds like laughter

�Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

Art is soap

Everyday living can be drab so it is good to paint and to be able to become absorbed totally in his soul's work

The soul is dependent on art

�Conscience is a man's compass.” – Vincent Van Gogh

You need to be conscious in order to know where you are going

Consciousness is life

A compass is life

�Chaos is a friend of mine.” – Bob Dylan

Chaos is a person

Chaos is close to him and he relates to chaos

Chaos is a good person

�All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” – Albert Einstein

Religons, arts and sciences are related in that they are creative expressions important to sustain life

Religions, arts and sciences are actual branches that make up a tree

Religions, arts and sciences are not important to life

�Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” –George Orwell

Advertising is the stick rattling the swill bucket of endless consumer goods, alerting us pigs, constantly, to the endless festive parade of crap we're encouraged to buy even if it means going into debt.

Advertising rattles people with a literal bucket

People are attracted to rattling sticks

�Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” –William Wordsworth

Breathe on a piece of paper

You can't fill a paper without breathing your heart out

Put your soul into your work

�All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” –William Shakespeare

Life is a play. People come and go off stage.

The world is a literal stage

People are actors

�America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.” John F. Kennedy

America has reached space

America can't get into space without throwing a cap

America has not reached space

�A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” Benjamin Franklin

In order to celebrate Christmas, you need a good conscious

The latin word of Christmas means good consciousness

You have a sense of rightness with the world that just keeps on giving because of the state of mind it offers.

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