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1/14/03

STUDENT METAPHORS, SIMILES, AND ANALOGIES FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS

See how many of these you can use in your next presentation...




1. It hurts the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

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

4. She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword.

5. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

6. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

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

8. Her vocabulary is as bad as, like, whatever.

9. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots frying in hot grease.

10. 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 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

11. The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

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

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

14. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

15. It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.

16. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

17. "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

18. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

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