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Break a leg!
Idiom - Good luck
Spill the beans
Idiom - To tell a secret
I smell a rat
Idiom - I think that someone is being sneaky
Oh! An ugly, itchy sweater. Thanks grandma, this is exactly what I wanted.
Verbal irony
They are in love/hate relationship
Oxymoron
Zombies are the living dead.
Oxymoron
Jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
Act naturally.
Oxymoron
A gym teacher that hates to exercise
Situational irony
In the movie Toy Story, the audience knows the toys are alive, but the people in the movie don't.
dramatic irony
Thanks so much for going to Starbucks and not getting a coffee for me.
verbal irony
A police station gets robbed.
situational irony
At the beginning of the movie Titanic, the audience knows that the boat sinks but the characters don't.
dramatic irony
"She was fishing for compliments."
Metaphor
She's going through a rollercoaster of emotions.
Metaphor
She sells seashells by the sea-shore
Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
Lightning danced across the sky
Personification
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
Personification
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
Personification
He's running faster than light
Hyperbole
This bag weighs a ton.
Hyperbole
That man is a hundred feet tall.
Hyperbole
The grocery shopping cost me a million dollars.
Hyperbole
Huh Sob Kerplunk
Onomatopeia
Slurp Brrr Splat
Onomatopeia
Ka-boom Boom Beep
Onomatopoeia
They fought like cats and dogs.
Simile
He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.
Simile
HONK HONK
Onomatopoeia
Laughter is the music of the soul.
Metaphor
That game Mr. Petersen made for us was a blast.
Metaphor or idiom
This soup is as thick as mud
Simile
A cat that is afraid of mice.
situational irony
In a scary movie, the audience can see there is a monster behind the door, but the characters don't.
dramatic irony