Silly Similes
You know the feeling when, as a teacher, you try to stretch the
skills of your students. Well.. alas, the results are not always breath taking. Sometimes
they just smell like that. These are the results of encouraging students to use
comparisons.
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. (Joseph
Romm, Washington)
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used
to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
(Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station)
The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag
filled with vegetable soup. (Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring)
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 p.m. instead of 7:30. (Roy Ashley, Washington)
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the
center. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. (Unknown)
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. (Jack Bross, Chevy
Chase)
The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
fry them in hot grease. (Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring)
Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a
movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall
Man." (Russell Beland, Springfield)
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.
(Jennifer Hart, Arlington)
The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr.
on a Dr Pepper can. (Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.)
They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth (Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.)
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
also never met. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
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. (Barbara
Fetherolf, Alexandria)
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
clothes in a dryer without Cling Free. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge) |