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  • Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.
    Personification
  • If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked like clock parts.
    Simile
  • Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
    Metaphor
  • Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.
    Simile
  • Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
    Hyperbole
  • Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.
    Hyperbole
  • The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.
    Onomatopoeia
  • I couldn’t sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet.
    Onomatopoeia
  • She was terribly pleased with her Birthday present.
    Oxymoron
  • The buses can be impatient around here.
    Personification
  • Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.
    Hyperbole
  • Cassie talked to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax advice.
    Simile
  • Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.
    Hyperbole
  • That woman is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.
    Metaphor
  • His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.
    Metaphor
  • Nothing can bother him.
    Hyperbole
  • Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.
    Personification
  • The buses can be impatient around here.
    Personification
  • Parting is such sweet sorrow.
    Oxysmoron
  • The machine whirred to a standstill.
    Onomatopoeia
  • It’s an open secret that they have been having an affair for the past six months.
    Oxymoron
  • The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax statues.
    Simile
  • Patty drank from a bottomless glass of Kool-Aid.
    Hyperbole
  • My dad is always working.
    Hyperbole
  • Time is money.
    Metaphor
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