GCSE essay

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These are actual metaphors from GCSE essays :

 

* Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other

sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

 

* His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking

alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.

 

* She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that

used to dangle from doors and would fly up whenever you banged

the door open again.

 

* The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a

bowling ball wouldn't.

 

* McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag

filled with vegetable soup.

 

* Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

 

* Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the

centre

 

* Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

 

* He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

 

* The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots

when you fry them in hot grease.

 

* Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced

across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one

having left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from

Peterborough at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

 

* The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the

Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.

 

* John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds

who had also never met.

 

* 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.

 

* The red brick wall was the colour of a brick-red crayon.

 

* Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,

only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

 

* The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the

interview portion of Family Fortunes.

 

* Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

 

* The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, this

plan just might work.

 

* The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not

eating for a while.

 

* Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a

student on 31p-a-pint night.

 

* 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.

 

* Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who

can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

 

* She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog

makes just before it throws up.

 

* It came down the stairs looking very much like something no

one had ever seen before.

 

* The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Glenda Jackson

MP in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to

Robin Cook MP, Leader of the House of Commons, in the House

Judiciary Committee hearings on the suspension of Keith Vaz MP.

 

* The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one

slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.

 

* 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 cashpoint.

 

* The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating

electric fan set on medium.

 

* It was a working class tradition, like fathers chasing kids around

with their power tools.

 

* He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard

bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.

 

* She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.

 

* She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was

room-temperature British beef.

 

* She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

 

* Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation

thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

 

* It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it

to the wall.

[borderboy 80]

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[Guest caro]

brilliant made me laugh    :11:  :11:

 

especially these two

 

* She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog

makes just before it throws up.

 

and

 

* It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it

to the wall.

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can't be - they are too good