“The butterflies in my stomach fluttered as if I were on a Tilt-A-Whirl” (Buyea 6).
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
personification
“I couldn’t catch my breath” (Buyea 53).
idiom
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
“It zinged through the air on its mission like a missile from a fighter jet” ( Buyea 53).
personification
idiom
allusion
onomatopoeia
“I think what happened on the soccer field just set us up for disaster later on” (Buyea 55).
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hyperbole
metaphor
foreshadowing
“I almost died of laughter” (Buyea 53).
simile
personification
idiom
hyperbole
“It was like I sucked all the excitement out of the classroom with a gigantic vacuum hose” (Buyea 113).
hyperbole
simile
personification
metaphor
“She had more to get off her chest” (Buyea 65).
idiom
allusion
hyperbole
simile
“Little did I know that something much bigger was coming our way” (Buyea 88).
foreshadowing
allusion
hyperbole
imagery
“What rock are you living under?” (Buyea 122).
simile
idiom
metaphor
hyperbole
“Our playdate was perfect, and it flew by like a day at the amusement park” (Buyea 104).
simile
metaphor
imagery
hyperbole
“This drives him nuts, and I love it” (Buyea 85)
simile
hyperbole
personification
idiom
"Then the screech of the fire alarm pounded against my ears" (Buyea 103).
hyperbole
personification
metaphor
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"I was the new girl, and my arrival pushed her out of the group" (Buyea 39).
imagery
personification
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
“Love poured from him” (Buyea 64).
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
“The sky was a blue ocean with sailboats made of clouds sailing across the sky.”
hyperbole
imagery
allusion
simile
“Her perfume drifted by me, a garden of fresh roses in bloom.”
imagery
personification
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