Thursday, February 3, 2011

Humorous Analogies in Writing

There is a list of "56 best/worst analogies from high school students" floating around Facebook today, even though the original post is a few years old. Some of them are absolutely hilarious. I'm encouraged to see that students haven't yet lost every drop of creativity in an educational system dominated by standardized tests.

A few favorites:

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

16. 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.

35. 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.”

45. The sardines were packed as tight as the coach section of a 747.


The full list is posted on Lost Eyeball.

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