Analogies & Metaphors<ot>

[Ronnie Gauthier]

Got this from another list I'm on. Enjoy...makes yoiu wonder just what 
experience they went through to come up with these.

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Subject: Analogies & Metaphors found in High School Essays



Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its 2 other sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

>>Sue Lin Chong, Washington
>>

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

>>Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
>>

He spoke with 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 dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those
boxes with a pinhole in it.

>>Joseph Romm, Washington
>>

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

>-Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

>>

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
center.

>>-Russell Beland, Springfield
>>

>>Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access

T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch at ung but gets
T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch at ung by mistake.

>>-Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills
>>

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

>>-Unknown
>>

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

>>-Jack Bross, Chevy Chase
>>

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
them in hot grease.

>>-Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring
>>

>>Long separated by cruel fate, 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.

>>-Jennifer Hart, Arlington
>>

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

>>-Wayne Goode, Madison,AL
>>

They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that
resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

>>-Paul Kocak, Syracuse NY
>>

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

>>-Russell Beland, Springfield
>>

The thunder was ominous sounding, much like sound of a thin sheet of
metal
being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

>>-Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria
>>

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

>>-Unknown
>>

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

>>Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>>

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. -

>>Sandra Hull, Arlington
>>

The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the
interview portion of "Jeopardy!"

>>-Jean Sorensen, Herndon
>>

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
  -Jerry Pannullo, Kensington

>>

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

>>-Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington
>>

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

>>-Malcolm Fleschner, Arlington
>>

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

>>-Bonnie Speary Devore, Gaithersburg
>>

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.

>>-John Kammer, Herndon
>>

Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell
butter from I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.

>>-Barbara Collier, Garrett Park
>>

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

>>-Susan Reese, Arlington
>>

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

>>-Marian Carlsson, Lexington
>>

The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
(D-Tex.)
in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep.
Henry
Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the
impeachment
of President William Jefferson Clinton.

>>-J. F. Knowles, Springfield
>>

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

>>-Jennifer Hart, Arlington
>>

The revelation that his marriage of 30 yrs had disintegrated because of
his
wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly
surcharge-free ATM.

>>-Paul J. Kocak, Syracuse
>>

The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating
electric fan set on medium.

>>-Unknown
>>

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

>>-Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>>

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
she
were a garbage truck backing up.

>>-Susan Reese, Arlington
>>

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

>>-Tom Witte, Gaithersburg
>>

Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in
any pH cleanser

>>-Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
>>

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

>>-Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
>>

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

>>-Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park
>>

Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first- generation
thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

>>-Sue Lin Chong, Washington
>>

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