Or a simile.
Annual English Teachers' awards for best student metaphors/analogies found in actual student papers:There are more.
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 plan was simple, like my brother-in-law George. But unlike George, this plan just might work.
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 vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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