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    I dug this up randomly just now and yep, still hilarious

    17thsuitcase:

    audreyhepburncomplex:

    merricat:

    tilly-clark:

    jours:

    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 to the amusement of teachers across the country.


    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.

    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 machine.

    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.

    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, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

    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. 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.

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

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA
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      Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors...
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      HAHAHA. These are just fantastic
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      Haha, and I’m currently in High School getting to create these types of metaphors of my own!
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      i am laughing so hard i cant breathe right now. this actually makes me want to teach english.
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      its been so long. most of these are pretty damn good. this is exactly what i love about writing, using metaphors to...
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      holy fucking shit, this is hilarious. i had to reblog it so i could save it forever and use it for my essays rofl.
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      because they’re creative. Too bad they are not very poetic. Number 7 cracks me up. Number 21 is there because it took...
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      Holy fuck. I still can’t get over number 20. And 21.
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      Fellow school lit mag editors.. I just sent this to you. BE INSPIRED. :>
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      This is ridiculously brilliant. I’m asking my english teacher if he knows about this.
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      I was weak through this whole thing! Ahahahaha!
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      Hahahahahaha, oh my. A-maz-ing!
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      Ms. Kuper doesn’t like cliches so lets see how she feels when I use these.
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      This is really great. I can only aspire to the heights of these poetic geniuses.
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      Most of these are similes…but that’s okay.
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      I’m sure I’ve written some well-versed (HA!) metaphors through the years.
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      7, 16, 17 & 21! Oooh, yes…
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      These are great - so creative.
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      except for 21, these are all examples of simile. get your fucking rhetorical devices right goddammit.
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      I can’t even vocalize how amazing these are…
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