* Example: "Time is a river."
* Simile: A comparison between two unlike objects that use the words like or as.
* Example: "The sky is as blue as the ocean."
* Personification: Giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
* Example: "The wind whispered through the trees."
* Hyperbole: An exaggeration for emphasis.
* Example: "I laughed so hard I cried."
* Understatement: A deliberate understatement for emphasis.
* Example: "It was a bit chilly outside."
* Oxymoron: A combination of two contradictory terms.
* Example: "jumbo shrimp"
* Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
* Example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."