What type of figurative language is this?

I just hope things don't get out of hand when we get back to the school.

What type of figurative language is this?

...did you ever hear of counting your chickens?

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Her eyes covered me like the sky.

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...I had to, so to speak, touch the stove that I knew was hot.

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...it skipped over me like a flat stone on water.

What type of figurative language is this?

...where "Hi" was as rare as rain.

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Unlike Stargirl, I was aware of the constant anger of our schoolmates, seething like snakes under a porch.

What type of figurative language is this?

"I search through fillers like a prospector digging for gold," she said.

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...I was as proud as a first-grader with a star on his paper.

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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.

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I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain.

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Every question, every stray thought from miles around came wandering into my brain, sniffing about, scratching at my attention.

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Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

What type of figurative language is this?

She laughed, and the desert sang.

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In school I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms.

What type of figurative language is this?

By the time he's done, that ear of yours will be clean as a whistle.

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I wanted to feel myself getting closer step by step, feel the tension rising like fizz in a soda bottle.

What type of figurative language is this?

The cheers from across the gym were volleys of arrows piercing our grand delusion.

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What type of figurative language is this?

Her scream bent instrument dials like palms in a hurricane.

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...and her freckles settle back onto the bridge of her nose,...

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With my resistance now gone, I jumped in with both feet.

What type of figurative language is this?

I couldn't see her freckles from the audience, but I imagined them dancing on her nose as she flicked her head this way and that.

What type of figurative language is this?

... the atmosphere bristled like cactus paddles.

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She marched in, leading her girlfriends like an invading general.

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She swirled like a dust devil.

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She marched stiffly like a wooden soldier.

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...and yet, though I did not realize this until years later, he was grand marshal of our daily parade.

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The sun lay down behind the mountains.

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Shadows crossed the street.

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With every step, the silence grew.

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She was today. She was tomorrow.

What type of figurative language is this?

...we quickly snapped back into place, like rubber bands.

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Alan Ferko's face turned red as Bo Peep's pigtail ribbons.

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...her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer's eyes caught in headlights.