Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Simile: A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another things of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. (Uses like or as)
Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. (Boom! POW!)
Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
Assonance: The repetition in vowels without repetition of consonants, used as an alternative rhyme in verse.
Idiom: A group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of individual words. (It’s raining cats and dogs)
Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman or the representation of an abstract in human form. (The bell screamed at us to keep moving.)