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Definitions
What is it?
What is it? - Part II
What is it? - Part III
Thanksgiving
100
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100

I ordered online proofreading services with the click of a mouse.

What is onomatopoeia?

100

I was as hard as nails

What is a simile?

100
I ate a million pieces of cake.
What is hyperbole?
100

What is the 4th Thursday of November?

Thanksgiving

200
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.
What is a personification?
200

Her voice was a violin plummeting down through the melody of some baroque canon.

What is a metaphor?

200

The sudden stench of the soggy swamp assailed our noses

alliteration

200

Country the Pilgrims left behind

England

300

A common saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it

Idiom

300
I heard it straight from the horse's mouth?
What is an idiom?
300
The wind whistled throughout the night.
What is personification?
300
My mother is a bright light in a dark room.
What is metaphor?
300

What is the Pilgrim's boat called

The Mayflower

400
Giving something that is not human, human traits.
What is personification?
400

I love melting massive marshmallows.

What is alliteration?

400

It was as unexpected as snow in July.

Simile

400
This was a piece of cake!
What is idiom?
400

What were the 16th and 17th-century English Protestants called?

Puritans

500

The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.

Alliteration

500

Her temper was a volcano waiting to erupt as the manager kept yelling at her.

Metaphor

500

The old car finally bit the dust as the engine, with a sad sigh, refused to turn off. 

idiom and personification

500

The explosion was loud enough to wake the dead

Hyperbole

500

What is Ms. Krupczak's favorite Thanksgiving food?

Green Bean Casserole