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Ka-boom Boom Beep

Onomatopoeia

The other day I held the door open for a clown. I thought it was a nice jester.

PUN

Lightning danced across the sky

Personification

Original copy

Oxymorn

Slurp Brrr Splat

Onomatopeia

The police station gets robbed

Irony

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Alliteration

She's going through a rollercoaster of emotions.

Metaphor

Break a leg!

Idiom

He's running faster than the wind

Hyperbole

After hours of waiting for the bowling alley to open, we finally got the ball rolling.

PUN

When you get an "F" on your term paper and say, "Wow, I did a really good job on my term paper!" That is?

Irony

"She was fishing for compliments."

Metaphor

Her singing was enough to raise the living dead.

Oxymoron

There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.

Oxymoron

To smell a rat

Idiom

That man is as tall as a house.

Hyperbole

Act naturally.

Oxymoron

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Personification

Cheep Moo Whimper

Onomatopoeia

This is another fine mess you have got us into.

Oxymoron

John's suggestion was just a Band-Aid for the problem.

Metaphor

Laughter is the music of the soul.

Metaphor

The shopping cost me a million dollars.

Hyperbole

His new girlfriend really is pretty ugly.

Oxymoron

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

Personification

Your explanation is as clear as mud

Similie

Huh Sob Kerplunk

Onomatopeia

They fought like cats and dogs.

Similie

To spill the tea

Idiom

Always trust a glue salesman. They tend to stick to their word.

PUN

This bag weighs a ton.

Hyperbole

A chicken crossing the road is truly poultry in motion.

PUN

She sells seashells by the sea-shore

Alliteration

He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.

Similie