Sarah couldn't wrap her head around the fact that her family was moving.

I have a thousand and one things to do.

His grandfather is tall as a skyscraper.

Heather the hairdresser happily helped Hayley decide on her hairstyle.

The literary technique that is being used in the poem "Falling Down" is . . .

The lake was a mirror.

That boy walks around with a giant chip on his shoulder.

The morning sun smiled down on me as I walked to school.

The type of figurative language used in this poem is . . .

After we won the soccer game, my team was on cloud 9!

A snowball whooshed past my ear during the snowball fight.

I felt as if I had walked a million miles today.

I have to practice my multiplication tables over and over and over again so I can memorize them.

Tom saw blue birds. He saw green birds. He saw big birds. He saw small birds.

Please don't cut any corners when cleaning your room.

The house stood all alone in the middle of nowhere.

The type of figurative language used in the poem "Dreams" is . . .

The type of figurative language found in the poem "Timeout" is . . .

The literary technique used in this poem is . . .

The new baby was a bundle of joy.

The two types of figurative language used in the poem "Beach Orchestra" are . . .