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56 "Worst" best analogies of high School English papers.

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

    18. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

    47. The baseball player stepped out of the box and spit like a fountain statue of a Greek god that scratches itself a lot and spits brown, rusty tobacco water and refuses to sign autographs for all the little Greek kids unless they pay him lots of drachmas.

    50. Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.

    [rotfl] lol

    This post was edited by Go Green Girl on 4/14/2011 at 7:32 AM

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  • D.Wags said...

    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

    roflmao

    msuroo

  • D.Wags said...

    29.“Oh, Jason, take me!” she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

    roflmao

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    This is a Pallas’s cat. Their round pupils give them an odd human quality. They disturb me...deeply.

    Zeno

  • iCameron said...

    Where is the analogy here, exactly? Some of these are definitely metaphors, but the distinction between metaphor and analogy is tricky. But I don't think #17 is either of the two.

    I believe these are all technically similes, not metaphors or analogies.

    Similes compare two things that are like one another, generally using "like" or "as," which is exemplified in these lines. On the other hand, Metaphors compare two things as if they were the same thing (i.e. one thing is another, not like another). Analogies compare sets of things with other sets of things that are related in the same way (e.g. Fish is to Lake as Deer is to Woods).

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  • Gus Chiggins said...

    I believe these are all technically similes, not metaphors or analogies.

    Similes compare two things that are like one another, generally using "like" or "as," which is exemplified in these lines. On the other hand, Metaphors compare two things as if they were the same thing (i.e. one thing is another, not like another). Analogies compare sets of things with other sets of things that are related in the same way (e.g. Fish is to Lake as Deer is to Woods).

    Similes and Metaphors are types of analogies.

    A simile uses 'like' or 'as,' while a metaphor doesn't.

    "You are the wind beneath my wings" is a metaphor. You aren't really wind.

    "Strong as an ox" is a simile.

    Both of the above are analogies because they liken one thing to another.

    UsedToBeBrad ●

  • UsedToBeBrad said...

    Similes and Metaphors are types of analogies.

    A simile uses 'like' or 'as,' while a metaphor doesn't.

    "You are the wind beneath my wings" is a metaphor. You aren't really wind.

    "Strong as an ox" is a simile.

    Both of the above are analogies because they liken one thing to another.

    I suppose it depends on your conceptions of an analogy. In modern vernacular, analogy has become synonymous with comparison, which would include similes and metaphors by proxy. However, analogies are actually logical arguments, not figures of speech like similes and metaphors. Analogies are used to suggest that if two things are similar in one way, they are also similar in another way. Often, an analogy will be used to explain an unknown thing by reference to a known thing. In other words, you can argue by analogy but you cannot argue by simile or metaphor.

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  • I had seen these a month ago. My favorite was "the sardines were packed as tight as passengers on a 747"

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    Damon Dowdell

  • +1

    ug...

    AvgMSUJoe

  • The sunset displayed rich, spectacular hues like a .jpeg file at 10 percent cyan, 10 percent magenta, 60 percent yellow and 10 percent black. lol

    "I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or something, but I don’t speak German. Anyway, it’s a dread that nobody knows the name for, like those little square plastic gizmos that close your bread bags. I don’t know the name for those either." lol

    RasTrent

  • #9 = Post Post Modernism:

    Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

    roflmao

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    Don't post poop!

    SeeRockCity

  • "McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. "

    I want to fill a Hefty bag with vegetable soup and drop it off a 12 story building to see if this analogy actually works.

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

    This is actually incredibly witty.

    "His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. "

    This one actually made me laugh out loud.

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  • 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.

    lol Number 16 cracks me up, I don't know why, I just see some 10th grader sitting at his computer having to turn in this english paper for mr. butler tomorrow and just writing anything down.

    They're all cracking me up, but i thought 16. was funny because it seems like the kid was doing his english homework with one hand and his math homework with the other.

    My favorite is "John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met."

    It's probably unintentional, but it comes across as a smartass student trying to do a "correct" analogy that tells you absolutely NOTHING descriptive at all. roflmao

    mark_v

  • #16 is pure genius. Like mentioned, I picture some kid up early the morning before the paper is due and intentionally being a smart ass by using that train math problem.

    22Deuce22 ●

  • Here's the original Washington Post article from 1995. There are a few more analogies listed in this article, and they also credit the student who wrote the analogy.

    Week 120: Simile Outrageous - washingtonpost.com

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600802.html

    www.washingtonpost.com

    Spartan4ever

  • RPMadMSU said...

    "McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. "

    I want to fill a Hefty bag with vegetable soup and drop it off a 12 story building to see if this analogy actually works.

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

    This is actually incredibly witty.

    "His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. "

    This one actually made me laugh out loud.

    i can get the hefty bag and we can go to the top of hubard..... shrug

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