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High school analogies (English Teacher Files)
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Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year - Here are last year's winners..... 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. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 4. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 5. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 6. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 7. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 8. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 9. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 10. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 11. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 12. 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. 13. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 14. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. -- Dorothy There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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High school analogies (English Teacher Files)
"toto" wrote in message ... I thought you might enjoy this: Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year - Here are last year's winners..... Those were funny. Some of them were actually kind of clever! JennP. |
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