Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase (Sally sells seashells by the seashore.)
Hyperbole: An exaggeration (That person can touch the clouds.)
Idiom: An expression that cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as you drive me crazy
Irony: The opposite of what is meant (What a genius!)
Metaphor: A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items. (Love is a rose.)
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like what they are. (POP! BAM! Slosh)
Personification: Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person
Puns: A word or words, which are formed or sounded alike, but have different meaning; to have more than one possible meaning. (Using that pencil is pointless.)
Simile: A comparison using "like" or "as" (She sings like an angel.)
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