Idioms
"My mom is always telling me to crack a book."
She is telling the person that they need to open up a book and study.
"I could hear the food sissling in the kitchen."
Onomatopoeia: "Sissling."
Her hair is as soft as cotton.
Simile. Her hair is very soft.
"The dough made a really squishy sound when I poked it."
Onomatopoeia: "Squishy."
"When I poured the milk in the cereal, the cereal popped."
Onomatopoeia: "Popped."
"I think it's time to call it a day."
They are done/they are giving up.
"Me and my dad went on a wild goose chase after that guy nearly hit my dad's bumper of his truck."
Idiom. "Wild goose chase."
"You were as brave as a lion."
Simile. They were very brave.
"Soon, you will regret what you did to me. You'll get a taste of your own medicine!"
Idiom: "You'll get a taste of your own medicine." Meaning: They will get what they diserve.
"When I went to go pet the cat, it hissed at me!"
Onomatopoeia: "Hissed."
"I finished the test down to the wire."
They finished the test at the last minute.
"The wind howled in the night."
Personification: "Howled." The wind can't really howl, it just kind-of sounds like it can.
"The snow is like a white blanket."
Metaphor. Snow isn't a blanket, but a white blanket is kind-of like snow. (Snow is frozen water that froze in the sky, and fell down.)
"Watching the show was like watching grass grow."
Simile: "Watching grass grow." The show was super long and boring. ._.
"He was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped that lady start her car."
Allusion: "Samaritan" This refers to the story of the Good Samaritan who was the only one to stop and help a man if in need.
Dad: "Give it a shot."
He is telling the person to try something new.
"The girls love of sweets was her Achilles heel."
Allusion: "Achilles heel."
"The calm lake was a mirror."
Metaphor. A lake is kind-of like a mirror, but it isn't actually a mirror. (It's water.)
"She is as popular as Taylor Swift!"
Allusion: "As popular as Taylor Swift." They are saying that she is very popular and pretty.
"This place is like a Garden of Eden!"
Allusion: "Garden of Eden" Was the paradice God made for Adam and Eve.
She has doubts about the pie.
"The night curtain of night fell upon us.."
Metaphor: "The curtain of night." Meaning: Night isn't really a giant curtain that falls upon the world.
"They fought like cats and dogs."
Simile. They were fighting kind-of aggressively. (Cats and dogs don't get along very well..)
"Her hair is like chocolate milk."
Metaphor: "Hair is like chocolate milk." Her hair isn't really chocolate milk.
"I bit into the apple and heard a loud crunch!"
Onomatopoeia: "Crunch."