alliteration - Keep Carly quiet at choir practice., onomatopoeia - The duck quacked as he splashed., simile - Mrs Smith felt as cold as ice., metaphor - The living room was a furnace., personification - The trees loomed menacingly over him and whispered breezy threats., analogy - The dinosaur's tail was 12 metres long. That's as long as a public bus!, parallel construction - He lost his keys. He lost his wallet. He lost his phone. It was not his favourite day so far., verbal irony - The oven broke halfway through cooking our dinner, which was just great!, situational irony - He stepped aside to dodge a puddle, and slipped and fell into the pond., rhetorical question - How many times have I told you to walk in the corridor?, idiom - I'm over the moon! , cliché - (Clue: often an idiom, but particularly an overused one)He has a heart of gold., proverb - Don't judge a book by its cover.,

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