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  • His exhaustion caused him to hit the sack.
    Idiom
  • My dad knows everything about cars.
    Hyperbole
  • She's afraid of her own shadow
    Idiom
  • The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
    Personification
  • I could not go to your party because it was raining cats and dogs.
    Idiom
  • Anna is wise as an owl.
    Simile
  • That seemed a very sad neighborhood.
    Personification
  • You gotta be patient because Rome wasn't built in a day.
    Idiom
  • The silence crept into the classroom.
    Personification
  • The teacher took the failing student under her wing.
    Idiom
  • She is a rockstar.
    Metaphor
  • He walks like a duck.
    Simile
  • Her hair was as soft as a spider web.
    Simile
  • The buses can be impatient around here.
    Personification
  • I can't understand anything in this class. It's all Greek to me!
    Idiom
  • The pencil just walked off my desk.
    Personification
  • The brown grass was begging for water.
    Personification
  • The maths test was a piece of cake!
    Idiom
  • The promise is a delicate flower.
    Metaphor
  • I have told you a million times not to lie.
    Hyperbole
  • The truth tasted like terrible toothpaste on his tongue.
    Simile
  • We'll be best friends forever!
    Hyperbole
  • My new iPhone cost an arm and a leg.
    Idiom
  • The sun kissed my skin.
    Personification
  • I waited in the line for centuries!
    Hyperbole
  • The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
    Metaphor
  • He is as quiet as a mouse
    Simile
  • I will die if she asks me to the dance.
    Hyperbole
  • I feel free as a bird.
    Simile