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| Comparing two (or more) things using the words "like" or "as". |
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| Comparing two (or more) things by substituting one object for another - Without "like" or "as". |
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| Greatly exaggerating the truth |
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| Common expression understood figuratively; meaning is different from it's individual words. |
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| Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. |
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| Using several words that all include the same sound; repetition of consonate sounds at beginning of words. |
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| Naming an action or a thing according to what is sounds like. |
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| Pattern of end rhyme; Assigning letters to each word at the end (rhyming words are given the same letters) |
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| Patters of stressed and unstressed syllables in the line (flow of poetry/prose when reading) |
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| Writer/speaker knowingly repeats a word or group of words for effect. |
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