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Act naturally.

Oxymoron

That game Mr. Petersen made for us was a blast.

Metaphor or idiom

The grocery shopping cost me a million dollars.

Hyperbole

Huh Sob Kerplunk

Onomatopeia

Ka-boom Boom Beep

Onomatopoeia

Jumbo shrimp

Oxymoron

That man is a hundred feet tall.

Hyperbole

She sells seashells by the sea-shore

Alliteration

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Alliteration

Zombies are the living dead.

Oxymoron

Slurp Brrr Splat

Onomatopeia

She's going through a rollercoaster of emotions.

Metaphor

A cat that is afraid of mice.

situational irony

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

Personification

Spill the beans

Idiom - To tell a secret

Oh! An ugly, itchy sweater. Thanks grandma, this is exactly what I wanted.

Verbal irony

A police station gets robbed.

situational irony

A gym teacher that hates to exercise

Situational irony

I smell a rat

Idiom - I think that someone is being sneaky

This bag weighs a ton.

Hyperbole

He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.

Simile

Break a leg!

Idiom - Good luck

Laughter is the music of the soul.

Metaphor

HONK HONK

Onomatopoeia

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

Personification

Lightning danced across the sky

Personification

In the movie Toy Story, the audience knows the toys are alive, but the people in the movie don't.

dramatic irony

In a scary movie, the audience can see there is a monster behind the door, but the characters don't.

dramatic irony

This soup is as thick as mud

Simile

They are in love/hate relationship

Oxymoron

"She was fishing for compliments."

Metaphor

They fought like cats and dogs.

Simile

At the beginning of the movie Titanic, the audience knows that the boat sinks but the characters don't.

dramatic irony

Thanks so much for going to Starbucks and not getting a coffee for me.

verbal irony

He's running faster than light

Hyperbole