Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed...

You are what you eat.

She sells seashells by the seashore.

I am so hungry I could eat a cow.

KABOOM!

Even diamonds are jealous of your beauty.

The fog curled over the tombstones like locks of hair.

Our lives are grapes, bitter and sweet.

The rose stretched her arms out and yawned after a long winter's nap.

The lunch line reached from the beginning to the end of the Great Wall of China.

My binder is an overflowing sea of papers.

Ouch!

Definition - extreme exaggeration

Definition - repetition of initial consonant sounds

Definition - a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Definition - the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as hiss, buzz, slam, and boom

Definition - a comparison of two things using like or as

Definition - a direct comparison of two different things

Definition - language used by writers to produce images in readers' minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways

As she dreamed about winning her eyes became stars twinkling with the possibilities.

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