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  • You are an open book.
    Metaphor.
  • The flowers danced to the wind.
    Personification.
  • My father has eyes like a hawk. He finds out even the minutest of things.
    Simile.
  • To have a good sleep, the bedroom needs to be as dark as night.
    Simile.
  • My sisted and I had a friendly fight.
    Oxymoron.
  • He felt he had a golden ticket.
    Allusion
  • Attibute human characteristics to something that is not human:
    Personification.
  • Opportunity is knocking at your door.
    Personification.
  • The teacher thought she was clean as a whistle.
    Simile.
  • A phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words in it.
    Idiom.
  • Trigonometry is my least favourite topic in Maths.
    Oxymoron.
  • Three grey geese in a green fiel grazing.
    Alliteration.
  • Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
    Alliteration.
  • She was beating a dead horse thinking she could change his mind.
    Idiom.
  • Speaking up in the meeting, she was bold as brass.
    Simile.
  • They are inseparable, like two peas in a pod.
    Simile.
  • She cut him down with her words.
    Metaphor.
  • The class today was as boring as watching paint dry.
    Simile.
  • Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge.
    Metaphor.
  • Her hope was a fragile seed.
    Metaphor.
  • Someone is knocking on the door.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • The students were shining stars.
    Metaphor.
  • She has a Mona Lisa smile.
    Allusion
  • The teacher asked us to break a leg at the annual day dance.
    Idiom.
  • The squeak of his shoes woke up Mom.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • Today my friend was busy as a bee.
    Simile.
  • They had a Titanic failure.
    Allusion
  • Juan sniffed the air.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • Nothing annoys me more than rapidly clicking yout pen.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • My friend's sister is a night owl.
    Metaphor.
  • melodic morning melodies moved many.
    Alliteration.
  • Nobody knew where the big black bear was.
    Alliteration.
  • The kids were playing outside. By the time they came back, they were black as coal.
    Simile.
  • the classroom was a zoo.
    Metaphor.
  • I carried my little sister yesterday, and she is as light as a feather.,
    Simile.
  • A big bug bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
    Alliteration.
  • The race car zoomed past the finish line.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • This place is a real neverland.
    Allusion
  • A phrase that combines two words that seem to be the opposite of each other.
    Oxymoron.
  • A group of words established by usage that have a meaning that don't derive from individual words.
    Idiom.
  • There was only a small crowd in front of the grocery store.
    Oxymoron.
  • My brother feels that I am growing smaller every tume he comes back after a trip;
    Oxymoron.
  • My hands, during winter, turn as cold as ice.
    Simile.
  • Betty bought a bit of butter but the butter was very bitter.
    Alliteration.
  • The warrior has a heart of stone.
    Metaphor.
  • Life is like a box of chocolates.
    Simile.
  • My mom asked my to make my room clran as a whistle.
    Simile.
  • Light had conquered darkness.
    Personification.
  • The phone beep during the movie
    Onomatopoeia.
  • She is an open book.
    Metaphor.
  • The leaves waved hello in the wind.
    Personification.
  • Chester demanded that he wanted the whole piece of cake.
    Oxymoron.
  • Use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together:
    Alliteration.
  • Susan was a cheetah in the race today.
    Metaphor.
  • Don't trust his words. He is cunning like a fox.
    Simile.
  • It is a direct comparison:
    Simile.
  • Our new puppy is as cute as a button.
    Simile.
  • My brother and I fight like cats and dogs.
    Simile.
  • The final dance was seriously funny.
    Oxymoron.
  • The sunflowers nodded in the wind.
    Personification.
  • Actions speak louder than words.
    Personification.
  • Life is a highway, and I want to ride it all night long.
    Metaphor.
  • My brother saw a big, black bug sitting on the bushes.
    Alliteration.
  • Talking to my mom about my grades made me feel like I was walking on eggshells.
    Idiom.
  • She was an autumn leaf.
    Metaphor.
  • My mom was feeling under the weather.
    Idiom.
  • Words are swords, they can cut through people's hearts.
    Metaphor.
  • They say New York is the city that never sleeps.
    Personification.
  • This town is a desert.
    Metaphor.
  • The chair groaned with relief as the large man stood.
    Personification.
  • My roommate is going through a rollercoaster of emotions.
    Metaphor.
  • The party died as soon as she left.
    Personification.
  • I can never manage such a deafening silence.
    Oxymoron.
  • When you arrive, hunk your horn.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • Your eyes are stars in a night sky.
    Metaphor.
  • He held her hands.
    Alliteration.
  • They asked us to submit the original copy.
    Oxymoron.
  • Taking up this job was my only choice.
    Oxymoron.
  • My mom was so tired, that she slept like a baby.
    Simile.
  • The brown grass was begging for water.
    Personification.
  • Our city needs a real lige batman.
    Allusion
  • uses two opposites or contradictory terms one after the other in order to project an effect:
    Oxymoron.
  • The movie seemed to be awfully good.
    Oxymoron.
  • This jobs fits you like a glove.
    Simile.
  • The pigs oinked all day.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • Everybody claped after the speach.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • My work desk is an organised mess.
    Oxymoron.
  • She didn't say a word, she was as silent as a mouse.
    Simile.
  • If you have the hiccuos, you should drink water.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • I am no Hercules, but I can open the jelly jar for you
    Allusion
  • The wheels of justice turn slowly.
    Metaphor.
  • The wind swayed softly and smoothly.
    Alliteration.
  • The light danced on the surface of the water.
    Personification.
  • My brother started swimming classes when he was three years old. He swims like a fish.
    Simile.
  • Tania spilled the beans about her sister.
    Idiom.
  • Does not use any specific words to make a comparison:
    Metaphor.
  • Nobody know why Dias gave Rayan a cold shoulder.
    Idiom.
  • Sam likes reading works of true fiction.
    Oxymoron.
  • Time marches on.
    Personification.
  • Hang in there! Everything will be okay before you know it.
    Idiom.
  • Life is a rose with thorns.
    Metaphor.
  • You have arrived! Better late thank never.
    Idiom.
  • She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
    Alliteration.
  • Harry and Hani are finding it really difficult to make two ends meet.
    Idiom.
  • The teacher taught a lesson on turtles and tortoises.
    Alliteration.
  • This place is a zoo.
    Metaphor.
  • Santana left the painting completely unfinished.
    Oxymoron.
  • A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cool who could cool cookies.
    Alliteration.
  • It is an implied comparioson:
    Metaphor.
  • We planned to go to the beach, but we decided to call it a day as everyone was tired.
    Idiom.
  • They were peas in a pod.
    Metaphor.
  • bright blue butterflies buzzed by.
    Alliteration.
  • The stars were sparkling and winking at all of us.
    Personification.
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Alliteration.
  • The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • My brother can burp the alphabet.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • He was trying to kill two birds with a stone.
    Idiom.
  • The calm lake was a mirror.
    Metaphor.
  • Our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden.
    Allusion.
  • I was getting cold feet,
    Idiom.
  • I swear he has an Alddin's lamp, all his wiches come true.
    Allusion
  • roaring rivers ran rapidly.
    Alliteration.
  • The story jumped of the page.
    Personification.
  • The sun smiled down on us.
    Personification.
  • Life is a journey.
    Metaphor.
  • I'm going to turn into the Incredible Hulk on you.
    Allusion
  • Write tittily eothout worry.
    Alliteration.
  • You drive your destiny.
    Alliteration.
  • My friends are always there for me, through thick and thin.
    Idiom.
  • A book is a passport to another world.
    Metaphor.
  • The clouds are balls of cotton.
    Metaphor.
  • Without my glasses I am as blind a bat.
    Simile.
  • My dog eats like a pig after I take him for a wolk.
    Simile.
  • delighful daises danced during dusk.
    Alliteration.
  • I feel this patterns are pretty ugly.
    Oxymoron.
  • You are an Angel. Thank you!
    Metaphor.
  • You have ideas flowing one after the other. Your mind is an ocean.
    Metaphor.
  • His transformation was nothing like short of a Cinderella story.
    Allusion
  • Bill will cry if you pop his balloon.
    Onomatopoeia.
  • The trees dropped their leaves and rested.
    Personification.
  • Time is a Thief.
    Metaphor.
  • He is the Einstein of the class.
    Allusion
  • Parting is such a sweet sorrow.
    Oxymoron.
  • Uses words such "like" or "as" to make a comparison.
    Simile.
  • I was so hungry and the food kept calling me.
    Personification.
  • Your brain is a computer.
    Metaphor.
  • The world is a stage, so just act accordingly.
    Metaphor.
  • The snake hissed.
    Onomatopoeia.
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