What type of figurative language is this? The kitten's tummy purred like an outboard motor.
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What type of figurative language is this? The Mediterranean Sea was still attacking them, wave after wave trying to drown them.
personification
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What type of figurative language is this? There were no trees, no shade, no parks or football fields or rivers. Just a sea of tents and a forest of electric poles and wires.
metaphor
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What type of figurative language is this? The world was a whirlwind of bricks and broken dishes and table legs and heat.
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What type of figurative language is this? Josef's heart was in his throat. Any second now the mob was going to attack the policemen, Josef knew it.
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What type of figurative language is this? Mahmoud's heart thundered in his chest.
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trap
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seesaw
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fairy
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baam
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What type of figurative language is this? Tears streamed down his face. They had been held back by a dam before, and now the floodgates had suddenly been opened.
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What type of figurative language is this? Then suddenly they were both thrown to the bottom of the boat, and something buzzed like a mosquito underneath the bowl of the tanker.
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What type of figurative language is this? Two giant smokestacks stuck up from the middle of the ship, one of them belching gray-black diesel engine smoke.
personification
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What type of figurative language is this? The blood drained from Josef's face.
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What type of figurative language is this? His arm shook, and the gun danced between the two front seats.
personification
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thief
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star
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shark
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thief
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What type of figurative language is this? The Mediterranean Sea churned like a washing machine.
