Example: As sly as a fox.
2. Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things not using the words "like" or "as."
Example: He is a couch potato.
3. Personification: Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
Example: The wind whispered through the trees.
4. Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
5. Assonance: The repetition of the same vowel sound in a series of words.
Example: See Sam seek shells by the seashore.
6. Consonance: The repetition of the same consonant sound in a series of words.
Example: Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
7. Hyperbole: An exaggeration for emphasis or humor.
Example: I was so hungry, I could eat a horse.