It's raining cats and dogs.

Tova's water glass clinks as it hits the counter.

"It was meant as a joke, but the words spray out like acid" (Van Pelt).

What are the THREE main authors' purposes?

A phrase or expression that does not make sense LITERALLY

Your yellow yarn waved wildly in the wind.

Summer is certainly dragging its feet this year.

The sky was a dusky purple overhead, stars scattered over its canvas like frozen tears.

She felt that she had gained and lost the world in a single morning.

"There was no trace of the stubborn, proud girl who'd been Daphne's best friend. Her eyes were pools of darkness, her features impassive" (McGee 231).

Beatrice missed her father most in the mornings. Once the day began and she was pulled in a million different directions, the pain of missing him subsided to a dull ache.

Her hair was a fiery tangle around her shoulders.

I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of exhausted pigeon.