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Mary Erickson
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I'm reading a really great book, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Reading books like this can be good or bad. She uses such beautiful metaphors, one's I wish I'd thought of. When one of her characters sees an old love he's never gotten over after fifteen years, his thought is "Her hair his longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parenthesis around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear."
This beautiful bit of writing has stayed with me all day. Anyone else have a simile or metaphor that strikes them this way?
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LA
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 03:45 pm: | |
um...not exacctly beautiful, but I have one of my own characters stating, "I've been stood up more times than an old pair of boots."
That is a very good metaphor you've posted for us to enjoy. Ms. Picoult should be proud.
LA
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Registered: 03-2004
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Ooh, that was a good one, Mary. Here's one of my favorites from my second book, Different Roads:
Jaycee paused at the door to wave at Bud before she went inside, remembering the way he’d looked when he'd thought she was leaving. How well did she know that fear? She and Bud were two sides of the same unwanted coin that had been dropped and left where it had fallen.
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Mary Erickson
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This was emailed to me. They are funny but showed a lot of creativity.
Actual Analogies and Metaphors Found In High School Essays
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like
underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse
without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
8. 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.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie,
surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and
Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you
fry them in hot grease.
14. 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.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had
also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the
East River.
18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap,
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for a while.
22. 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.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg
behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with
power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as
if she were a garbage truck backing up.
26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in
any pH cleanser.
27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.
28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
to the wall.
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Bill Nelson
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"It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it
to the wall."
Boy, I'm here to tell you that doesn't feel good!
Bill Nelson
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Mary Erickson
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Been playing handyman again, haven't you, Bill?
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