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  • The raindrops danced on the tabletop.
    Personification
  • Time flies by!
    Idiom
  • The police station gets robbed
    Irony
  • Beating off more than you can chew
    Idiom
  • Just dill with it!
    pun
  • Deafening silence
    oxymoron
  • The last day of school is like the beach - easy and relaxing!
    Simile
  • BAM! The door shut behind me!!
    Onomatopoeia
  • There were a billion mosquitos buzzing around!
    Hyperbole
  • The hissing of the cat was barely audible.
    Onomatopoeia
  • You snore like a freight train.
    Hyperbole
  • A fire station burns down
    Irony
  • This candy cane is in mint condition.
    Pun
  • Her head was spinning from all the new information.
    Hyperbole
  • I've told you a million times to clean your room!!
    Hyperbole
  • We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.
    Alliteration
  • They fought like cats and dogs
    Simile
  • Karen clawed at Carl.
    Alliteration
  • same difference
    oxymoron
  • The stars will cry
    Personification
  • Busy as a bee
    Simile
  • The camera loves me!
    Personification / Idiom
  • The coffee shop is an icebox!
    Metaphor
  • Small crowd
    Oxymoron
  • I am as hungry as a bear!
    Simile
  • Straight from the horse's mouth
    Idiom
  • You could hear the hum of the engine
    Onomatopoeia
  • This vacuum sucks.
    Pun
  • Love is a battlefield.
    Metaphor
  • A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
    Metaphor
  • pretty ugly
    oxymoron
  • The sun played hide and seek with the clouds
    Personification
  • Time is money
    Metaphor
  • She is as happy as a clam.
    Simile
  • The burning wood hissed and crackled.
    Onomatopoeia
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