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  • The unexpected question smacked me right in the face.
    personification
  • I've been "under the weather" for three weeks!
    idiom
  • Mama always said "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." This quotation is a/an_______ to the movie Forest Gump.
    allusion
  • Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
    hyperbole
  • The ballerina was a swan as she glided across the stage.
    metaphor
  • a combination of words that has a meaning other than its grammatical or logical one
    idiom
  • I heard the Whoomp! as the giant air mattress hit the pool.
    onomatopoeia
  • I can't believe you told Dennis I like him! My entire life is over!
    hyperbole
  • A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
    allusion
  • a play on words
    pun
  • Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles
    simile
  • Hopefully, Hannah's house will have heat.
    alliteration
  • Being struck by lightning is a very shocking experience.
    Pun
  • Mistakes were made when Michael met my mother.
    alliteration
  • He started a club for people who hate technology; you can only join online.
    situational irony
  • Mama always said "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get."
    simile or extended metaphor
  • Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
    alliteration
  • The rich chocolate sauce slid down the side of the perfect round scoop of vanilla ice cream and landed on the dark gray countertop.
    imagery
  • It really burns me up when you're talking when I try to tell you something.
    idiom
  • Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
    onomatopoeia
  • Language that appeals to the senses
    imagery
  • The sunflowers turned their golden heads at the sun passed by.
    personification or imagery
  • We're never going to that restaurant again; we had to wait forever for a table.
    hyperbole
  • I wondered why the baseball was getting larger, and then it hit me.
    pun
  • Type of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were a human
    personification
  • Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by saying one is the other
    metaphor
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