- Alliteration: My mother made me mix my mash.
- Alliteration: Silly Simon sat stupidly sideways.
- Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- Appositive: Room 106, my homeroom, is often crowded.
- Appositive: Mr. Dunning, the principal, lost weight this summer.
- Appositive: My aunt, Linda Evers, is out of work.
- 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!
- Hyperbole: "There must have been a million cars in the parking lot today!"
- Idiom: "Gas costs an arm and a leg these days!"
- Idiom: "That's the way the cookie crumbles."
- Idiom: "That test was a piece of cake!"