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Comparing unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
He is as funny as a monkey.
What is a simile that describes someone who is very funny?
The wind howled in the night.
What is a personification that describes wind?
He's running faster than the wind.
What is a hyperbole for running?
She had a photographic memory but never developed it.
What is a pun for photographic memory?
Comparing two or more unlike things.
What is metaphor?
Batten down the hatches.
What is a metaphor that describes someone who is angry?
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
What is a personification that describes someone who is very hungry?
That man is as tall as a house.
What is a hyperbole for tall?
I have no idea.
What is a idiom for someone who can't think of something?
Giving human/living characteristics to nonhuman/living things.
What is personification?
As cute as a kitten
What is a simile that describes someone who is good looking?
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
What is a personification that describes something that wakes you up?
Your skin is softer than silk.
What is a hyperbole for silk?
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.
What is a pun that describes a bicycle?
Over exaggerating.
What is hyperbole?
The snow is a white blanket.
What is a metaphor that describes snow?
The avalanche devoured anything standing in its way.
What is a personification that describes an avalanche?
The shopping cost me a million dollars.
What is a hyperbole for shopping?
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
What is a idiom for someone who doesn't want to talk about something?
A play on words with multiple meanings.
What is pun?
He is a shining star.
What is a metaphor that describes someone who is very famous?
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is a personification that describes lightning in the sky?
This was the worst day of my life.
What is a hyperbole for life?
The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord.
What is a pun for a piano player?