I was doubled up with laughter after reading what students write in exams.These answers would get them no marks;but they show such spontaneity that I am impressed by how these students think!
"The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."
"Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. "
"He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. "
"Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster. "
"She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. "
"She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. "
"McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. "
"Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze."
"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. "
"The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. "
"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. "
"The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. "
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