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Sentences using the components of I-SHAMPOO

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Break a leg!

Idiom - Good luck

15

Spill the beans

Idiom - To tell a secret

15

I smell a rat

Idiom - I think that someone is being sneaky

15

Oh! An ugly, itchy sweater. Thanks grandma, this is exactly what I wanted.

Verbal irony

20

They are in love/hate relationship

Oxymoron

20

Zombies are the living dead.

Oxymoron

20

Jumbo shrimp

Oxymoron

20

Act naturally.

Oxymoron

20

A gym teacher that hates to exercise

Situational irony

20

In the movie Toy Story, the audience knows the toys are alive, but the people in the movie don't.

dramatic irony

15

Thanks so much for going to Starbucks and not getting a coffee for me.

verbal irony

25

A police station gets robbed.

situational irony

10

At the beginning of the movie Titanic, the audience knows that the boat sinks but the characters don't.

dramatic irony

10

"She was fishing for compliments."

Metaphor

20

She's going through a rollercoaster of emotions.

Metaphor

20

She sells seashells by the sea-shore

Alliteration

20