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