02-12-2006, 11:25 PM
> These are actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays:
>
> 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
> gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
>
>
> 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
> underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
>
>
> 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
> guy
> who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
> those
> boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at
> high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without
> one of
> those boxes with a pinhole in it.
>
>
> 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
> room-temperature beef steak.
>
>
> 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
> just before it throws up.
>
>
> 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
>
>
> 7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
>
>
> 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
> because
> of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a
> formerly
> surcharge free ATM.
>
>
> 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> bowling ball wouldn't.
>
>
> 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
> filled
> with vegetable soup.
>
>
> 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
> eerie,
> surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and
> Jeopardy
> comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
>
>
> 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
>
>
> 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
> fry them in hot grease.
>
>
> 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
> the
> grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left
> Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at
> 4:19
> p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
>
>
> 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
> that
> resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
>
>
> 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
> had
> also never met.
>
>
> 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the
> East River.
>
>
> 18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap,
> only
> one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
>
>
> 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
>
>
> 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
> this plan just might work.
>
>
> 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
> eating
> for a while.
>
>
> 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either,
> but
> a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine
> or
> something.
>
>
> 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender
> leg
> behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
>
>
> 24. It was a Canadian tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
> power tools.
>
>
> 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
> as
> if she were a garbage truck backing up.
>
>
> 26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in
> any
> pH cleanser.
>
>
> 27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
>
>
> 28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it.
>
>:LOL::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
>
> 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
> gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
>
>
> 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
> underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
>
>
> 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
> guy
> who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
> those
> boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at
> high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without
> one of
> those boxes with a pinhole in it.
>
>
> 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
> room-temperature beef steak.
>
>
> 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
> just before it throws up.
>
>
> 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
>
>
> 7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
>
>
> 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
> because
> of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a
> formerly
> surcharge free ATM.
>
>
> 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> bowling ball wouldn't.
>
>
> 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
> filled
> with vegetable soup.
>
>
> 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
> eerie,
> surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and
> Jeopardy
> comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
>
>
> 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
>
>
> 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
> fry them in hot grease.
>
>
> 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
> the
> grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left
> Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at
> 4:19
> p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
>
>
> 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
> that
> resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
>
>
> 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
> had
> also never met.
>
>
> 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the
> East River.
>
>
> 18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap,
> only
> one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
>
>
> 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
>
>
> 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
> this plan just might work.
>
>
> 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
> eating
> for a while.
>
>
> 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either,
> but
> a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine
> or
> something.
>
>
> 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender
> leg
> behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
>
>
> 24. It was a Canadian tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
> power tools.
>
>
> 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
> as
> if she were a garbage truck backing up.
>
>
> 26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in
> any
> pH cleanser.
>
>
> 27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
>
>
> 28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it.
>
>:LOL::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: