The Analogy & Metaphor Exercise

For this exercise you need to bring in several miscellaneous items. They can be office items, household items, or anything else you want to throw into a paper bag. You also need to make a list of lead-ins like these examples; (I will use teaching Basic Internet Skills as my topic for the examples.)

A search engine is like this (item) because . . .
An ISP is like this (item) because . . .
A website is like this (item) because . . .

In the middle or at the end of your session, you will explain the game, Let a person pick an item from your bag, then give them the first/next suggestion on your list of analogies and metaphors. They need to complete the sentence. You can reuse items from the bag if you run out because the analogies and metaphors you associate with them will be different.