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She sells seashells by the seashore
a) Onomatopoeia
b) simile
c) alliteration
d) metaphor

Her eyes are a blazing sun
a) simile
b) Onomatopoeia
c) hyperbole
d) metaphor

Fat boy slim
a) hyperbole
b) oxymoron
c) simile
d) Onomatopoeia

Crazy like a fox
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) hyperbole
d) idiom

In a restaurant, We are 86 chicken tacos. (86 means out of)
a) idiom
b) jargon
c) metaphor
d) simile

The chair danced across the floor during the earthquake.
a) personification
b) hyperbole
c) metaphor
d) jargon

It has been raining for 1000 years.
a) Onomatopoeia
b) jargon
c) hyperbole
d) metaphor

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. or Break a leg
a) Onomatopoeia
b) simile
c) metaphor
d) idiom

(after losing your game 30-0 nothing) I guess the beat us a little)
a) understatement
b) oxymoron
c) hyperbole
d) metaphor

Snap, crackle, pop
a) jargon
b) idiom
c) Onomatopoeia
d) hyperbole

He is as big as a horse!
a) metaphor
b) idiom
c) simile
d) personification

The words jumped off of the page and danced around me.
a) personification
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) onomotopeia

My heart is a stone.
a) simile
b) metaphor
c) idiom
d) personification

A ____________ uses like or as.
a) hyperbole
b) oxymoron
c) simile
d) metaphor

If something is given human qualities we call this
a) hyperbole
b) personification
c) jargon
d) idiom

This bookbag weighs a ton!
a) personification
b) simile
c) hyperbole
d) personification

The flowers cried in the rain.
a) personification
b) hyperbole
c) simile
d) metaphor

My car is a gold mine.
a) hyperbole
b) personification
c) metaphor
d) simile

An exaggeration is a
a) idiom
b) hyperbole
c) simile
d) oxymoron

My computer is mad at me!
a) metaphor
b) oxymoron
c) jargon
d) personification

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