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Actual Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays

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.

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.

4. She grew

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

5. She had a deep,

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

6. Her vocabulary was as bad

as, like, whatever.

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

8. The revelation that his

marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife\'s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a

surcharge
at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the

way a
bowling ball wouldn\'t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty

bag
filled with vegetable soup.

11. 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.

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

13. The

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

14. 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

35mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy

Kerrigan\'s teeth.

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

met.

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

18. 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.

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

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law

Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you

get from not
eating for a while.

22. \"Oh, Jason, take me!\"; she panted, her breasts heaving like

a
college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

23. 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.

24.

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

hydrant.

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

26.

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

up.

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

28. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had

forgotten to put in
any pH cleanser.

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

legs.

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