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** Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays **
__ Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two 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 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.
--Joseph Romm, Washington
__ She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used
to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the
door open again.
--Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station
__ The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.
--Russell Beland, Springfield
__ McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled
with vegetable soup.
--Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring
__ 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 7:00p.m. instead of 7:30p.m.
--Roy Ashley, 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@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@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, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 pm, traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at
4:19 pm, at a speed of 35 mph.
--Jennifer Hart, Arlington
__ The 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 and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
also
never met.
--Russell Beland, Springfield
__ The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the 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 years 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.
--Brian Broadus, Charlottesville
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