Simile, A comparison using like or as. Example: He is as tall as a giraffe., Metaphor, a direct comparison. Example: The snow is a white blanket, Hyperbole, an extreme exaggeration. Example: The car is faster than the speed of light!, Personification, giving human traits to nonhuman object. Example: The sun smiled at me., Alliteration, repetition of initial consonant. Example: She is calm, cool, and collected., Assonance, repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words close together. Example: “Hear the mellow wedding bells.” – Edgar Allan Poe, Idiom, a phrase that has both a figurative and literal meaning. Examples: butterflies in my stomach, raining cats and dogs, couch potato

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