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timepiececlock ([personal profile] timepiececlock) wrote2008-01-16 10:13 pm

Repost: Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays

Skimming old entries, found this list that still amuses me.

23 Analogies and Metaphors Found in High School Essays

Samples:

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.

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.

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

[identity profile] thisficklemob.livejournal.com 2008-01-17 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
#14 strikes me as either intentionally dry and (self-)mocking, or the product of writing this essay at 2am after math homework.