Language Arts Literary

She is still and silent

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

The seas surged slowly.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

The rusty door hinge screamed every time the door opened.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Laughter is the music of the soul.

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

Life is a rollercoaster

• pun

• metaphor

• simile

She had a photographic memory but never developed it.

• symbolism

• pun

• hyperbole

The islands were growing smaller and smaller

• pun

• alliteraltion

• oxymoron

A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.

• metaphor

• symbolism

• pun

We're busy doing nothing.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• oxymoron

The books fell on the table with a loud thump.

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia