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  • Five freaky females finding sales at Foley's department store.
    alliteration
  • Her smile was as sweet as sunshine on a rainy day.
    simile
  • The raindrops danced along the window pane.
    personification
  • big exaggeration, usually uses humor
    hyperbole
  • The apartment was so dirty that you needed a hazmat team to enter into it.
    hyperbole
  • I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.
    simile
  • The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by the woods.
    alliteration
  • giving objects human qualities
    personification
  • The wooden table was as solid as a rock.
    simile
  • The straw that broke the camel's back.
    idiom
  • compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
    metaphor
  • compares two unlike things using "as" or "like"
    simile
  • A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
    irony
  • The sun smiled down on the green meadow
    personification
  • The rain storm was a frog strangler.
    Idiom
  • The moon is cheese in the sky.
    metaphor
  • Billy batted balls at the baseball field batting cages.
    alliteration
  • My feet are killing me.
    idiom
  • You are an ant, while I am the lion.
    metaphor
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