The world is my oyster.

It was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

The vines wove their delicate fingers together.

You could have knocked me over with a feather.

Using an owl to represent wisdom.

We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.

The burning wood hissed and crackled.

He heard the sound of firel, like wire striking air.

He lets the pink ball fall with a tall man.

Poised between going on and back, pulled / Both ways taut like a tight-rope walker,

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary;

Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

a figure of speech that compares two separate concepts through the use of a clear connecting word such as like or as

is like a simile but without connecting words

when a text references another external text or a person, place or event

non-literal turns of phrase so common that most people who speak the same language know them

a play on words; exploits the different meanings or a word or its homonyms

words sound like the thing they describe

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