"I was the new girl, and my arrival pushed her out of the group" (Buyea 39).
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
imagery
personification
"The swish of the basketball through the hoop excited the crowd."
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
simile
personification
"To me, his grin is like kryptonite."
allusion
imagery
personification
hyperbole
The limp plant was crying out for water.
personification
hyperbole
idiom
allusion
“Our playdate was perfect, and it flew by like a day at the amusement park” (Buyea 104).
imagery
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
“She had more to get off her chest” (Buyea 65).
allusion
simile
hyperbole
idiom
I've told you a million times!
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
imagery
“Love poured from him” (Buyea 64).
hyperbole
personification
simile
metaphor
“Little did I know that something much bigger was coming our way” (Buyea 88).
imagery
foreshadowing
hyperbole
allusion
Life is a journey!
simile
hyperbole
allusion
metaphor
“I almost died of laughter” (Buyea 53).
idiom
simile
personification
hyperbole
“This drives him nuts, and I love it” (Buyea 85)
hyperbole
simile
idiom
personification
I haven't seen you in ages!
allusion
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
The classroom was a zoo!
simile
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
The whoosh of the wind outside was scary!
alliteration
onomatopoeia
idiom
metaphor
You are my sunshine.
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
personification
The cat meowed for some milk.
personification
imagery
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
The little children licked cherry lollipops.
alliteration
allusion
onomatopoeia
idiom
“Her perfume drifted by me, a garden of fresh roses in bloom.”
allusion
simile
imagery
personification
“What rock are you living under?” (Buyea 122).
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
idiom
“It was like I sucked all the excitement out of the classroom with a gigantic vacuum hose” (Buyea 113).
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile
"I'm Juliet to your Romeo".
hyperbole
simile
allusion
personification
“I think what happened on the soccer field just set us up for disaster later on” (Buyea 55).
idiom
foreshadowing
hyperbole
metaphor
“The sky was a blue ocean with sailboats made of clouds sailing across the sky.”
simile
allusion
imagery
hyperbole
I'll skydive when pigs fly!
idiom
hyperbole
allusion
simile
The camera loves her!
personification
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
"Then the screech of the fire alarm pounded against my ears" (Buyea 103).
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
“It zinged through the air on its mission like a missile from a fighter jet” ( Buyea 53).
onomatopoeia
personification
idiom
allusion
“I couldn’t catch my breath” (Buyea 53).
idiom
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
“The butterflies in my stomach fluttered as if I were on a Tilt-A-Whirl” (Buyea 6).
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole