* Metaphor: "Life is a journey, not a destination."
* Personification: "The wind whispered through the trees."
* Hyperbole: "I was so hungry, I could eat a horse."
* Understatement: "It was a bit crowded."
* Irony: "The more you spend, the more you save."
* Oxymoron: "deafening silence"
* Paradox: "less is more"