Comparing two unlike things using like or as

An expression meaning something other than the literal meaning of the words

Accented syllables that produce a distinct beat in a line of poetry

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe" - Peter De Vries

"In the morning the city...spead its wings" - Langston Hughes

Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

When a word imitates the sound it represents

Words, phrases, or lines that are repeated

"A narrow wind complains all day how someone treated him." - Emily Dickinson

"It was so cold that all the fish moved south" -from an American folktale

Words that appeal to the senses

A reference to a real or fictional person, place or event.

When words or lines end with the same sound

"He hears the parson pray and preach."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard..." -Alfred Noyes

Giving human characteristics to something non-human

Extreme exaggeration

The repetition of beginning sounds in words

"Men's words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them." - George Savile

"That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles/and my daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet" - Taylor Swift

Language that means exactly what is stated

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

A repeated pattern of rhyming words

"My solitude grew more and more obese, like a pig"
-Mishima Yuukio

"a spark, struck out by a steed that flies fearless and fleet..." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow