Sunday, August 3, 2008

High School Students' Metaphors: Strangely Inspiring

"Funny metaphors used in high school essays"
Help.com (January, 2008)

"Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies 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:..."

From

"1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master."

to

"25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up."

My favorite, today, is "6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."

2 comments:

Brigid said...

Or: 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef.

Eeeeeewwwwww.

Brian H. Gill said...

Brigid,

:D

As you said.

It's a rich list.

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