Analogies & Metaphors found in High School Essays

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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@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, 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

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 Par

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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