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A type of figurative speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
The new student stood out like a sore thumb.
What is a simile that describes a new student?
The speakers were screaming.
What is a personification that describes loud speakers?
There were, like, one million people at the park.
What is hyperbole for a busy park?
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom that describes heavy rain?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more empathetic or vivid (uses "like" or "as").
What is simile?
His expression was a stone.
What is a metaphor that describes a stoic expression?
The cookie jar was calling to me.
What is personification that describes a cookie jar?
Everyone skipped school today.
What is hyperbole describing many people absent from school?
Did you see the collection of seven days that failed tryouts for wrestling? It was a week.
What is a pun for weak/week?
The attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
She was as lazy as a cat that day.
What is a simile that describes someone as lazy?
The coziness of the cabin hugged us as we walked in.
What is personification of a welcoming cabin?
The other guy was as tall as a mountain.
What is hyperbole describing a tall man?
Have you tried the new breakfast place down the street? It's eggceptional.
What is a pun describing a good breakfast restaurant?
A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
What is idiom?
The chairs were skyscrapers.
What is a metaphor describing unusually tall chairs?
The screen stared right back at me.
What is personification for a screen with nothing on it?
I looked everywhere for it and still couldn't find it.
What is hyperbole describing looking for something a lot?
We had three hours left so we decided to kill some time.
What is an idiom for spending time doing nothing productive while waiting?
Exaggerating statements or claims that are not meant to be take literally.
What is hyperbole?
The classroom was like a sauna.
What is a simile describing a hot classroom?
My muscles yelled for me to stop running.
What is personification for muscles that have been worked a lot?
I was out of the school the moment the bell rang.
What is hyperbole that describes someone leaving school fast?
I went to see fireworks with some friends yesterday, it was a blast.
What is a pun describing a fun time with friends while watching fireworks?