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