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><< Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays
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> >Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides
>gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
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> > His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
>underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
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> > 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.
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> > She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
>room-temperature Canadian beef.
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> > She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
>just
>before it throws up.
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> > Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
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> > He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
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> > 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.
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> > The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
>bowling
>ball wouldn't.
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> > McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled
>with
>vegetable soup.
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> > 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.
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> > Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
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> > The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
>them in hot grease.
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> > 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 35 mph.
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> > They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that
>resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
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> > John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
>also
>never met.
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> > He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East
>River.
> >
> > 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.
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> > Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
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> > The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this
>plan just might work.
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> > The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating
>for
>a while.
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> > "Oh, Jason, take me!"; she panted, her breasts heaving like a college
>freshman on $1-a-beer night.
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> > The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg
>behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
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> > It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
>power
>tools.
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> > He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
>she were a garbage truck backing up.
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> > She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.
> >
> > Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any
>pH
>cleanser.
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> > She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
> >
> > Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a generation thermal
>paper
>fax machine that needed a band tightened.
> >
> > It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to
>the
>wall
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