Light Notes
Actual Analogies Used By High School Students In English Essays
1. When she tried to sing, it sounded like a walrus giving birth to farm equipment.
2. Her eyes twinkled, like the moustache of a man with a cold.
3. She had him like a toenail stuck in a shag carpet.
4. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
5. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
6. Her eyes were like the stars, not because they twinkle, but because they were so far apart.
7. His career was blowing up like a man with a broken metal detector walking through an active minefield.
8. 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 at a 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
9. lt’s basically an illusion and no different than if I were to imagine something else, like Batman riding a flying toaster.
10. If it was any colder, it would be like being in a place that’s a little colder than it is here.
11. The bird flew gracefully into the air like a man stepping on a landmine in zero gravity.
