Similes, Metaphors, Hyperboles, and Allusion

The street was as hot as an oven.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

Put your foot in your mouth

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

Dad was a big teddy bear.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

The cat was like coal.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

I cried an ocean of tears.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

It took me a hundred years to do my homework.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

It's water under the bridge.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

The classroom was a zoo.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

The desert was a sauna.

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• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole

Joe raced the car as quick as lightning.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• idiom
• hyperbole