SMS – Figurative Language and Sound Devices Examples – Flashcards
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His shirt is bright like the sun.
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When she smiles, she lights up the room.
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The dry flower begged for water.
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That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding a dinosaur.
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Love is a lemon. It's either bitter or sweet.
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I've told you a million times. Put the toilet seat down.
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The wind whispered in the night.
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Tell Billy a joke because he laughs like a hyena.
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My teacher must have a heart of stone giving us all this homework.
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I had a ton of homework. I thought I would never finish.
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She won't changer her mind. She's stubborn as a mule.
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The pumpkin smiled at me.
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Ding dong! Somebody is at the door!
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Tennessee Titans
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She sells seashells by the seashore.
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Ruff! Oink! Moo! Quack! Meow! Baaa! Tweet! Hootie hoo!
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Swish! Nothing but the bottom of the net!
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Journal Jam.
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Mustang Madness.
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Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines: we're all of us looking for the key.
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Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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My father grumbles like a bear in the mornings.
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Matt Leinart slid into the draft like a bald tire on black ice.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.
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But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
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Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them.
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A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind.
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The rain came down in long knitting needles.
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Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
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Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe.
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Snow speaks to the people, its falling above in the glooming sunlight.
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Velvet remembers how it wrapped around me, keeping me warm on a snowy day.
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Oreo: Milk's favorite cookie.
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My computer hates me.
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The camera loves me.
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It is going to take a bazillion years to get through Medical School.
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I ate the whole cow.
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He's 900 years old.
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Maybe I'll do it in a million years.
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I am so tired I could sleep for a year.
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Red rooster says, "Cockadoodle do doo"
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"Ding-dong"
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Dusk demands daylight
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Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute
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Careless cars creating collisions
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Wise words wait
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We found ourselves in a pickle after being called to the AP's office.
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It's raining cats and dogs
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At 9 PM, my mom told me to hit the sack.
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His temper is so bad, so we say he has a short fuse.
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That test was a piece of cake.
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Jump shot, block; Defense on lock
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Match up live; Shot clock at five
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Jelly, jam, and buttered toast. I like breakfast food the most.
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Bagels, cream cheese, juices -- fresh squeeze, make me say, "Pass more here, please."
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