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  • The cat purred on her lap.
    Onomatopoeia
  • Brrrr....it is so cold!
    Onomatopoeia
  • My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning
    Personification
  • The leaves waved as we passed
    Personification
  • I love you to the moon and back
    Hyperbole
  • My grandma is blind as a bat
    Simile
  • He walks as slow as a sloth
    Simile
  • Cry me a river
    Hyperbole
  • Lightening danced across the sky
    Personification
  • She is feeling under the weather
    Idiom
  • She has bigger fish to fry
    Idiom
  • This place is a zoo
    Metaphor
  • Life is a highway
    Metaphor
  • That homework was a piece of cake
    Idiom
  • The thunder was grumbling in the distance
    Personification
  • Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
    Alliteration
  • That man was as strong as an ox
    Simile
  • I will die if he asked me to the dance
    Hyperbole
  • The water trickled from the faucet.
    Onomatopoeia
  • They fought like cats and dogs
    simile
  • Sally sells seashells by the seashore
    Alliteration
  • He is an early bird
    Metaphor
  • Good things come to those who wait
    Idiom