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kaizoku
Hey all... I got this sent to me a few days ago. It's a few wierd metaphors that were taken from student essays... banned.gif

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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.

His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a tumble dryer.

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to
dangle from doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling
ball wouldn't.

McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with
vegetable soup.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry
them in hot grease.

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the
grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left
York at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at
4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on
a Dr Pepper can.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also
never met.

The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of
metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

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.

The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview
portion of Family Fortunes.

Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just
might work.

The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a
while.

"Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a student on
31p-a-pint night.

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.

Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell
butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just
before it throws up.

It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever
seen before.

The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Glenda Jackson MP in her first
several points of parliamentary procedure made to Robin Cook MP, Leader of
the House of Commons, in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the
suspension of Keith Vaz MP.

The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind
her, like a dog at a lamppost.

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 cashpoint.

The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan
set on medium.

It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
their power tools.

He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she
were a dustcart reversing.

She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
room-temperature British beef.

She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-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.

blood105
hahahah those are hilarious

sounds just like something out of my english class - "i went fishing with my dad and me"
KL35K88
mmmmm.... makes me wonder if i should even try to understand in which "frame of mind" these ppl were when they came up with some of these "statements".

Although... quite a few interesting one's.
capn
Some are in a style very reminiscent of Douglas Adams, Tom Holt, and the like.
Ce'Nedra
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*chuckle chuckle*

brilliant!
Ninja Mo
These were award winning metaphors...and they are simply brilliant.

Perhaps a bit Pratchetish, but nonetheless absolutely descriptive and filled with rich imagery. Priceless.
Badavis
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She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

LMAO thats funny tongue.gif
Ninja Mo
This one is my fav biggrin.gif

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It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever
seen before.
Chatsubo
Correct me if I'm wrong (please, I'm just an afrikaans boy, so I'm prob wrong...).

But doesn't a simile have the word "like" in it, and a metaphor states something as if it IS that thing?

I distinctly remember that being the difference between a simile and a metaphor. That would make a lot of these simile's, not metaphors.

ie, A SIMILE is: "The water was like a wall hitting you in the face"
where a METAPHOR is: "The wall of water hit me in the face"

Or something like that....
HowlinMadMurdoc
Chatsubo you are correct. those are more like similies than metaphors.

or am I also being stupid?
BlackRazor
He screamed like the lost soul that flew from an old prostitutes bum at the stroke of midnight on new years eve in a little town in the karoo where it never rained...
I could go on but I just reached the end of my attention span.
What was the difference between a similie and metaphor again? (I lost my crib notes Teacher)
capn
In moments of uncertainty regarding vocabulary, the dictionary should never be underestimated. From dictionary.com we get:

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simile

n : a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')


and

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metaphor

n : a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Wolf
I think kaizoku made this post too show what happens when a similie and metaphor flows into each other.

"Stupid Metaphors" is the thread name after all.
kaizoku
Suppose most of these could be similes... didn't notice that. It's been 5 years since I left school... I can't remember half of what we did in english... laugh.gif
BlackRazor
Yeah I sniffed prestik too...
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