Colourful metaphors
A Factorial reader sent me some metaphors from NSW Year 12 essays. I thought you might enjoy them.She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature prime beef.
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 ATM.
McBride fell 12 storeys, hitting the pavement like a supermarket bag filled with vegetable soup.
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
You can read more of these metaphors at http://www.esau.com.au/forums/thread/245763
Labels: business writing, metaphors
posted by Unknown @ 3:32 PM
3 Comments:
These use "like" or "as" so I consider they ar similes not metaphors.
agree with john.
Although the hilarity of these would take a certain amount of wit, albeit poor grammar!
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