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  • life is a highway
    metaphor
  • You're such a chicken!
    metaphor
  • a common saying that means something different than it's literal meaning
    idiom
  • The light danced on the surface of the water
    personification
  • He is a couch potato
    metaphor
  • The old man had a voice like gravel
    simile
  • piece of cake
    idiom
  • Kill two birds with one stone
    idiom
  • I've told you this 20,000 times
    hyperbole
  • when you give human characteristics/actions to a non-human thing
    personification
  • this type of figurative language when you compare two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as
    metaphor
  • The cat was as white as snow.
    simile
  • There was a blanket of snow
    Metaphor
  • I died of embarrassment
    hyperbole
  • break a leg!
    idiom
  • The car ride took forever
    hypberole
  • when you use language that is extremely exaggerated
    hyperbole
  • The grass waved at passers by.
    personification
  • The instructions were as clear as mud.
    simile
  • This type of figurative language is when you compare two unlike things using like or as
    simile
  • Your bedroom is a dump
    meatphor
  • The sun smiled down on us
    personification
  • Lightening danced across the sky
    personification
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