Just as I slid into home plate, I heard a snap and a pop! It was then I realized my leg was broken.

Jansen is like a bowl of firecrackers near an open flame; you never know when he's going to let you have it.

Sadie sat silently staring out the window at the noon day sun.

"Well, toss the glass and kiss the boss! We finally got a raise!" Bess screamed as she saw her new contract.

"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

As for one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"Well, I guess it's back to square one," Mr. Jamison muttered after he posted the mid-year Algebra II grades.

Jennifer's twins are the biggest little boys I have ever seen.

My cat is a furry alien whose bizarre behaviors keep us in stitches.

Snow covers the city like blankets of white and sparkling diamonds.

Her necklace is a constellation of stars against her skin.

The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched land.

As fall turned to winter, the trees found themselves wearing robes of white.

I love my grandpa, but he is older than dirt!

The children were screaming and shouting in the grassy fields as they playfully chased the hundreds of colorful butterflies.

Words like “Aawk” and “Eeep” are examples of which figurative language device?

^{(Taken from 2008 Gr. 6 VA SOL Released test)}

The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.

The blind man gently caressed the tree to learn if its skin was smooth or rough.

To which sense does the above sentence mostly appeal?

"To Autumn" by John Keats

“Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”

To which two senses does the imagery in this poem mostly appeal?

As the horses' hooves clip-clopped over the cobblestone street, the iron-rimmed carriage wheels crunched along behind.

Which two figurative language devices (sound devices) are used in the sentence above?