Figurative Language!

The hailstones danced on the pavement as they landed.

While Rihanna tends to avoid cliches in her writing, "Shine bright like a diamond" was too good to resist.

Grandma was an open book, telling us all her secrets as we eagerly listened.

Being highly allergic to bees, the sound of their buzzing put me on edge and made me nervous.

The cookies called to me from the kitchen, their scent escaping and finding its way to my room.

As the wind picked up, a tree branch slapped me angrily across the face.

The SAT was a fire-breathing dragon that I was ready to slay.

I'd love to get places on time but it takes my wife a million years to get ready.

Before I could react to the call of "Fore!" the golf ball came whizzing past my head.

Tammy tiptoed tenuously, terribly terrified of tripping and tossing the two hundred and twenty two toothpicks.