Real ANALOGIES & METAPHORS FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS

~ Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently

compressed by a Thigh Master.

~ His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like socks in

a dryer without Cling Free.

~ 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.

~ She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature

Canadian beef.

~ She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just

before it throws up.

~ Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

~ He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

~ The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball

wouldn't.

~ 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.

~ Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

~ The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them

in hot grease.

~ 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.

~ John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also

never met.

~ He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

~ 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.

~ The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan

just might work.

~ The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a

while.

~ 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.

~ The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind

her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

~ He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she

were a garbage truck backing up.

~ She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

~ It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the

wall.