Quotations from (real) Leaving Cert. English essays:
McMurphy fell twelve stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, 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.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
She grew on him like a colony of E. coli on room-temperature beef.
She was as easy as the Independent crossword.
McMurphy fell twelve stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.
He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.
John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Even in his last years, Grandpa had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
The plan was simple, like my brother Phil. But unlike Phil, 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.
Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the centre.
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a dustcart reversing.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
She grew on him like a colony of E. coli on room-temperature beef.
She was as easy as the Independent crossword.