Moldy Soup
This soup tastes like trash.
Simile
It's raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
The wrestler is a mountain
Metaphor
She is grounded for 2,000 years.
hyperbole/idiom
Personification
The peace sign.
symbol
Once upon a time.....
cliche'
The stars glowed like flash lights.
simile
Y'all are going to be late.
Dialect
You are the Cinderella of the dance. (2)
allusion, metaphor
Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
irony
He fumed and charged like an angry bull. (2)
imagery/simile
You're like a Yoda. (2)
simile/allusion
Huck: “I’ll take the canoe and go see, Jim. It mightn’t be, you know.”
dialect
Love is blind. ... (2)
metaphor/cliche'
I have a frog in my throat.
idiom
"When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that wasn't necessary." (2)
allusion/simile
Crying like a baby, Fred grabbed his 200 pound doughnut and flew out of the room like Superman. (3)
simile/hyperbole/allusion
His brain was an encyclopedia. He could solve any problem like he was a calculator. He is a total Einstein. (3)
metaphor/simile/allusion
The hands on the clock have outrun me today. (2)
idiom/personification
A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance.
irony
"Running as fast as a sloth is not going to get us anywhere!" yelled Betty.
"Calm down! This isn't Survivor!"cried Fred.
"We're slow as a snail! It's taking us 10,000 hours!" (4)simile/allusion/simile or cliche'/ hyperbole
Tony the dairy farmer hated milk. The rooster was his alarm clock. He spent most of his days punching yelling cows in the face. (3)
irony/ metaphor/personification
She thought they would live happily ever after like Snow White, but as the darkness fell upon the forest, she knew that was not going to happen. (4)
simile/cliche'/ allusion/ foreshadowing
I could eat these cookies all day! They look like tiny buttons that fell off of someones shirt. These are little sugar diamonds. As a health food expert, I will tell everyone I know to eat them. (4)
hyperbole/simile/metaphor/irony