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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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.