Emma's birthday's tomorrow, and she wants a birthday present, so her mom is letting the cat out of the bag.
Idioms
We are in the cockpit of an airplane. The plane hits turbulence and the captain struggles to regain control. It doesn’t last long, and everything is soon seemingly fine again…
But the reader implicitly understands that this is going to be anything but a trouble-free flight.
Foreshadowing
The leaves were dancing in the wind.
Personification
Maya had a frog in her throat for 6 days.
Idioms
Personification
What is giving non-human things human characteristics.
The skyscraper was tall enough to touch the moon.
Personification
Irony
The day before thanksgiving Zach, Daniel, Ms. Alvarez, and Ms.'R' were sitting on top of the world.
Idioms
The angry sky roared and threw lightning in the air.
Personification
Hyperbole
What is an extreme exaggeration.
A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool.
Irony
I've told you a million times to stop talking.
Personification
Samantha must have walked a hundred miles.
Hyperbole
I'm so tired I can sleep for a year.
Hyperbole
Foreshadowing
What is to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.
A pipe is going to burst, but before it does, the author writes a scene where the family notices a small dark spot on the ceiling, but ignores it.
Foreshadowing
This morning Christopher got up on the wrong side of the bed.
Idioms
Irony
A teenage girl leaves the house for an evening out with her friends. Her mother makes her promise to be back before midnight. The girl kisses her mother and tells her she worries too much. She’ll be fine, she says. But us readers know she won’t be!
Foreshadowing
Irony
What is when something happens that is opposite from what is expected.
The king's nose is 3 feet long.
Hyperbole
The food was so hot my ears were smoking.
Hyperbole
We are in a Wild West saloon. The hero walks in and orders a drink. Over in the corner, the baddie watches him drink. As the hero leaves, the bad guy spits on the floor. And that is it…
But we know that their next meeting will probably not be so uneventful.
Foreshadowing
Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
Irony
Idiom
Idioms are word combinations that have a different figurative meaning than the literal meanings of each word or phrase. They are often common phrases.