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Idiom Explanations
Comparing What?
Examples
Personification or hyperbole?
100
The term that means "a comparison between to unlike things that doesn't use the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
The meaning of this idiom "Break a leg".
What is "do well or good luck"?
100
The meaning of this metaphor: Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.
What is "Nothing could get by Brian."
100
The figurative language device used here: Her feet are as cold as ice!
What is a simile?
100
I think of you a million times a day.
What is hyperbole.
200
words that imitate the sound they look like
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The meaning of this idiom "A little birdie told me."
What is "I heard it from someone" or "someone told me in secret"?
200
The meaning of this metaphor: We would have more pizza to eat if Tommy hadn't been such a hog.
What is "Tommy ate too much."
200
The figurative language device used here: My sister's room is a pig pen.
What is a metaphor?
200
Oreo. Milk's favorite cookie.
What is personification.
300
giving nonhuman objects or animals, human characteristics
What is personification?
300
The meaning of this idiom "My money is burning a hole in my pocket."
What is "I want to spend my money."
300
The meaning of this simile: My nephew is as sharp as a tack.
What is "My nephew is very smart"?
300
The figurative language device used here: The sun winked at me through the clouds.
What is personification?
300
Time waits for no one.
What is personification.
400
A comparison of two different things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
400
The meaning of the idiom "That problem is small potatoes."
What is "that problem is nothing compared to my bigger problem."
400
The items being compared: The leopard is as fast as a speeding train.
What is the leopard's speed and the speed of a train?
400
The figurative language device used here: I love mashing melting marshmallows.
What is alliteration?
400
That boy's eyes are so big, they look like they're going to jump out and grab you.
What is hyperbole.
500
The term that refers to the repetition of the same sound in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
500
The meaning of the idiom "the early bird catches the worm".
What is "Don't be lazy. Go after what you want, and don't wait."
500
The items being compared: She walks as gracefully and elegantly as a cat.
What is the way the girl walks and the walk of a cat.
500
I have a million things to do today and not enough time to do them.
What is a hyperbole?
500
My computer hates me.
What is personification.