Bad Analogies by High School Students
1) Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2) He was as tall as a 6’3” tree.
3) John and Mary never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
4) The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
5) 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.
Ye Bin Joined the Tribune four years ago as a freshman. She was a photography editor (2013-14), then a student life editor (2014-16), and currently is a social media editor for her last year in the Tribune....
