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Metaphors from GCSE Essays

  • 10-11-2003 5:22pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭


    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 Yorkat 6:36 p.m.travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterboroughat
    4:19p.m.ata 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 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 rosegracefully 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
    thermalpaper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

    It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
    to the wall.

    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Originally posted by KoolSexyBitch

    His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
    underpants in a tumble dryer

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


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

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

    :D very good, some of those were brillant.


  • Registered Users Posts: 354 ✭✭Commissar


    That is amazing.
    Christ, I wish I had come up with a few of those in my Leaving Cert.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,136 ✭✭✭Pugsley


    Posted a million times before.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
    to the wall.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭quank


    i just noticed that the title is wrong
    most of those arent metaphors
    they are similies:D
    Example of a simile:
    -The cloud looked like a castle in the sky
    Example of a metaphor:
    -The cloud was a castle in the sky

    Similies use "as" or "like" but metaphors are more direct

    sighage with the bad grammar:rolleyes:

    ill be able to sleep tonight;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    most excellent
    Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other
    sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

    :D


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