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Fri, 28 March 2008 02:29  |
rick
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What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
Metaphors found in high school essays!
Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
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 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 .
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 35 mph.
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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
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.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.
25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97518 is a reply to message #97506] |
Fri, 28 March 2008 09:21  |
Deej [5]
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You just made my day........I'm also piling up old tires to burn, before the
deadline.......
;o)
"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>
>
> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>
> Metaphors found in high school essays!
> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>
> 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 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 .
>
> 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 35 mph.
>
> 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
>
> 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.
>
> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
> with power tools.
>
> 25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97519 is a reply to message #97506] |
Fri, 28 March 2008 10:38 |
Deej [5]
Messages: 373
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Hmmm.......actually those are similies, aren't they? Maybe I need to go =
back to school???.......wait!!!!, the preamble to those metaphors looks =
like it was posted by a teacher!!!......
.......your tax dollars at work
:oO
"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message =
news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>=20
>=20
> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>=20
> Metaphors found in high school essays!
> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>=20
> 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
> gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
>=20
> 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
> like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was
> room-temperature Canadian beef.
>=20
> 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
> just before it throws up.
>=20
> 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
>=20
> 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> bowling ball wouldn't.
>=20
> 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
> filled with vegetable soup.
>=20
> 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.
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> 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
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> 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
> you fry them in hot grease .
>=20
> 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 35 mph.
>=20
> 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
> that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
>=20
> 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
> had also never met.
>=20
> 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was
> the East River.
>=20
> 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
> 19. Shots rang out, as shots are known to do.
>=20
> 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
> this plan just might work.
>=20
> 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
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>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender
> leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
>=20
> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97523 is a reply to message #97519] |
Fri, 28 March 2008 11:09 |
rick
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it's too bad spell check doesn't work on the subject line. i got the
never error right off but the additional h in metaphor escaped me till
must now...sad...sad...sad...
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0600, "Mr. Simplicity" <noway@jose.net>
wrote:
>Hmmm.......actually those are similies, aren't they? Maybe I need to go back to school???.......wait!!!!, the preamble to those metaphors looks like it was posted by a teacher!!!......
>
>......your tax dollars at work
>
>:oO
>
>
>"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>>
>>
>> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>>
>> Metaphors found in high school essays!
>> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
>> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
>> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
>> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>>
>> 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 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 .
>>
>> 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 35 mph.
>>
>> 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
>> with power tools.
>>
>> 25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97525 is a reply to message #97523] |
Fri, 28 March 2008 12:38 |
Deej [5]
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.........did a teacher prepare that prelude to the similies that describes
them as metaphors? It looks like that's possible since they are all excerpts
from academia. Do you know?
I thought teachers were all perfect. I don't know if I can handle this, but
I want to know.
Maybe we can blame it on a math teacher?
;o)
"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:evcqu31bnltehdi87i2poddnkklten6qhg@4ax.com...
> it's too bad spell check doesn't work on the subject line. i got the
> never error right off but the additional h in metaphor escaped me till
> must now...sad...sad...sad...
>
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0600, "Mr. Simplicity" <noway@jose.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Hmmm.......actually those are similies, aren't they? Maybe I need to go
>>back to school???.......wait!!!!, the preamble to those metaphors looks
>>like it was posted by a teacher!!!......
>>
>>......your tax dollars at work
>>
>>:oO
>>
>>
>>"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>>>
>>>
>>> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>>>
>>> Metaphors found in high school essays!
>>> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
>>> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
>>> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
>>> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>>>
>>> 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 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 .
>>>
>>> 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 35 mph.
>>>
>>> 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
>>> with power tools.
>>>
>>> 25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97548 is a reply to message #97525] |
Sat, 29 March 2008 03:34 |
rick
Messages: 1976
Registered: February 2006
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my 86 yr. old cousin sends me this stuff from his retirement home in
fla.
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:38:54 -0600, "Mr. Simplicity" <noway@jose.net>
wrote:
>........did a teacher prepare that prelude to the similies that describes
>them as metaphors? It looks like that's possible since they are all excerpts
>from academia. Do you know?
>
>I thought teachers were all perfect. I don't know if I can handle this, but
>I want to know.
>
>Maybe we can blame it on a math teacher?
>
>;o)
>
>
>"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:evcqu31bnltehdi87i2poddnkklten6qhg@4ax.com...
>> it's too bad spell check doesn't work on the subject line. i got the
>> never error right off but the additional h in metaphor escaped me till
>> must now...sad...sad...sad...
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:38:51 -0600, "Mr. Simplicity" <noway@jose.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hmmm.......actually those are similies, aren't they? Maybe I need to go
>>>back to school???.......wait!!!!, the preamble to those metaphors looks
>>>like it was posted by a teacher!!!......
>>>
>>>......your tax dollars at work
>>>
>>>:oO
>>>
>>>
>>>"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>>>>
>>>> Metaphors found in high school essays!
>>>> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
>>>> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
>>>> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
>>>> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>>>>
>>>> 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 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 .
>>>>
>>>> 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 35 mph.
>>>>
>>>> 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
>>>> with power tools.
>>>>
>>>> 25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97556 is a reply to message #97519] |
Sat, 29 March 2008 06:56 |
Bill L
Messages: 766
Registered: August 2006
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Damn, Deej, you're so right. But they are simile to a metaphor.
Mr. Simplicity wrote:
> Hmmm.......actually those are similies, aren't they? Maybe I need to go
> back to school???.......wait!!!!, the preamble to those /metaphors/
> looks like it was posted by a teacher!!!......
>
> ......your tax dollars at work
>
> :oO
>
>
> "rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com <mailto:parnell68@hotmail.com>> wrote in
> message news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
> >
> >
> > What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
> >
> > Metaphors found in high school essays!
> > Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
> > collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
> > essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
> > teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
> >
> > 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 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 .
> >
> > 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 35 mph.
> >
> > 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
> > with power tools.
> >
> > 25. 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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| Re: i neve metapor i didn't like... [message #97581 is a reply to message #97506] |
Sat, 29 March 2008 19:38 |
Sarah
Messages: 608
Registered: February 2007
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OK, I hurt from laughing. Thanks. I just wanna see the person who knows
what happens when one fries maggots.
And yes, most of those are similes, but who's counting? :)
This stuff reminded me of a little book called "Non Campus Mentis," a
condensed history of western civilization compiled from the papers and essay
tests of college student. Scary, but hilarious.
S
"rick" <parnell68@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:efepu35u1kgkdmhbf06raiav6fsev30fki@4ax.com...
>
>
> What's a Metaphor For, For Instance?
>
> Metaphors found in high school essays!
> Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their
> collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school
> essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
> teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners:
>
> 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 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 .
>
> 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 35 mph.
>
> 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, Granddad 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 known 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 awhile.
>
> 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.
>
> 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
> with power tools.
>
> 25. 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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