Quizlet PSSA: Alliteration, Appositive, Hyperbole, Idiom

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  1. Alliteration: My mother made me mix my mash.
  2. Alliteration: Silly Simon sat stupidly sideways.
  3. Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
  4. Appositive: Room 106, my homeroom, is often crowded.
  5. Appositive: Mr. Dunning, the principal, lost weight this summer.
  6. Appositive: My aunt, Linda Evers, is out of work.
  7. Hyperbole: I was so tired, I could have slept for weeks on end!
  8. Hyperbole: I must have gained 200 hundred pounds from all that holiday food!
  9. Hyperbole: "There must have been a million cars in the parking lot today!"
  10. Idiom: "Gas costs an arm and a leg these days!"
  11. Idiom: "That's the way the cookie crumbles."
  12. Idiom: "That test was a piece of cake!"