The Grammardog Guide to Silas Marnercontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the novel by George Eliot are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Figurative language is characteristic of Realism ("The coins he earned afterwards seemed as irrelevant as stones brought to complete a house suddenly buried by an earthquake." "He seemed to weave like the spider from pure impulse without reflection." "The thoughts were stranger to him now like old friendships impossible to revive." "The gold had asked that he should sit weaving longer and longer, deafened and blinded more and more to all things except the monotony of his loom . . .").
