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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | My mother made me mix my mash. |
| Alliteration | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
| Alliteration | Silly Simon sat stupidly sideways. |
| Appositive | My aunt, Linda Evers, is out of work. |
| Appositive | Room 106, my homeroom, is often crowded. |
| Appositive | Mr. Dunning, the principal, lost weight this summer. |
| Hyperbole | "There must have been a million cars in the parking lot today!" |
| Hyperbole | I was so tired, I could have slept for weeks on end! |
| Hyperbole | I must have gained 200 hundred pounds from all that holiday food! |
| Idiom | "That's the way the cookie crumbles." |
| Idiom | "That test was a piece of cake!" |
| Idiom | "Gas costs an arm and a leg these days!" |
| Terms | 12 |
| Creator | bstewart |
| Created | January 22, 2009 |
| Groups | None |
| Subject | reading vocabulary |
| Access | Anyone |
| Edit | Creator Only |
Identify each example as either alliteration, appositive, hyperbole or idiom.
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