Coleridge's Ancient Mariner describes the polar ice: "It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, / Like noises in a swound!" Which sense does this description mainly reach?

In Jack London's The Call of the Wild, Buck is driven out into the night: "A chill wind was blowing that nipped him sharply and bit with especial venom into his wounded shoulder." Which sense does this mainly reach?

Keats lays out a feast in "The Eve of St. Agnes": "candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd / With jellies soother than the creamy curd." Which sense does this mainly reach?

Whitman's speaker lists "The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn." Which sense does this line mainly reach?

Dickens's Pip looks out at "the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dikes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it." Which sense does this description mainly reach?

In The Red Badge of Courage the woods fall silent: "Everything seemed to be listening to the crackle and clatter and earthshaking thunder." Which sense does Crane's description mainly reach?

Fitzgerald calls the valley of ashes "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke." Which sense does this mainly reach?

In Jack London's White Fang a man fights wolves off with a campfire: "His face was blistering in the heat, his eyebrows and lashes were singed off, and the heat was becoming unbearable to his feet." Which sense does this mainly reach?

In The Great Gatsby, Nick watches Gatsby stretch "out his arms toward the dark water" and can make out only "a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock." What does the green light stand for?

The Mariner shoots the albatross, and the crew answers with "evil looks": "Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung." What does the hung bird stand for?

Frost's speaker begins, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood." What do the two roads stand for?

Hawthorne's Hester Prynne is sentenced by her town to wear, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth... the letter A." What does the letter stand for?

Gilman's narrator, forbidden to work and shut in an upstairs room by her physician husband, watches a woman behind the wallpaper: "she is all the time trying to climb through." What does that woman stand for?

A play ends with a father who has not spoken to his son all year quietly setting a second chair at the supper table before the son arrives. What does the second chair stand for?

In a novel a soldier carries a photograph of his street until the paper wears blank, and he goes on carrying it after the war ends. What does the blank photograph stand for?

A story set in a mill town keeps its river in view: clear where it enters the town above the mill, brown where it leaves below. What does the river stand for?

A security guide warns that the free game "is a Trojan horse: it opens the door for everything hiding behind it." What body of stories is that phrase borrowing from?

A news report calls the stranger who stopped to help at the crash "a good Samaritan." Where does that phrase come from?

A sportswriter describes the small school's upset of the state champion as "a David and Goliath game." What is the writer borrowing from?

A film reviewer writes that the two leads are "star-cross'd lovers, and the audience knows from the first scene how it has to end." What is the reviewer borrowing from?

A coworker says the new manager's ambition is "pure Lady Macbeth." What body of stories is that reference drawn from?

A tech columnist writes that the company holds up its new phone "like Excalibur, as though drawing it settles who gets to rule." What is the columnist borrowing from?

A teacher tells the class that the advertisement's promises are "a siren song, and the fine print is the rocks." What body of stories is that reference from?

A colleague says the parent who waited out three delayed flights showed "the patience of Job." Where does that comparison come from?

A story spends a paragraph on a kitchen: the pan hissing, onions going soft, steam beading on the window. Nowhere in the story does the kitchen mean anything beyond itself. What is the writer using?

A modern novel has a character call her brother "our own doubting Thomas" when he refuses to believe the news until he sees it. What is the writer using?

A play brings out a cracked mirror exactly once, in the scene where the family's secret finally comes out, and never uses it again. What is the mirror?

The same three notes of a lullaby come back in five different chapters, each time the mother appears. What is this repeated element called?

A poem spends eight lines on cold rain at a window: the drumming on the glass, the water beading and running, the chill coming through. Which senses do these lines reach?

In a short story one lamp is lit in an upstairs window on the night the family's son is due back from the war, and the story closes on it. What does the lamp stand for?