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  • My dad is always working.
    Hyperbole
  • If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked like clock parts.
    Simile
  • Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.
    Hyperbole
  • Nothing can bother him.
    Hyperbole
  • Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
    Metaphor
  • The machine whirred to a standstill.
    Onomatopoeia
  • Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.
    Personification
  • Time is money.
    Metaphor
  • Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.
    Simile
  • I couldn’t sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet.
    Onomatopoeia
  • Old Mr. John has been teaching here since the Stone Age.
    Hyperbole
  • Oxymoron
  • The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.
    Onomatopoeia
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