Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
* "She was as nimble as a deer."
2. Metaphor:
Comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
* "The world is a stage and all the men and women merely players."
3. Personification:
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object or abstract idea.
* "The wind whispered through the trees."
4. Hyperbole:
Exaggeration for emphasis.
* "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
5. Alliteration:
Repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words or syllables.
* "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."