Here are some examples of Analogies and Metaphors taken from High School Essays.


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

Her vocabulary was as bad as,like,whatever.

He was as tall as a 6ft 3inch tree.

The little boat drifted gently across the pond exactly the way a Bowling Ball would'nt.

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

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

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience,like the guy who went blind because he looked at a Solar Eclipse without one of those boxes with a pin-hole 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 pin-hole in it

He fell for her like he was a mob informant and she was the East river.

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

The plan was simple,like my brother-in-law Phil.But unlike Phil.This plan just might work.

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.