A simile (/smli/) is a figure of speech that directly compares two things.

[1][2] Although similes

and metaphors are similar, similes explicitly use connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or
various verbs such as resemble),[1] though these specific words are not always necessary.[3] While
similes are mainly used in forms of poetry that compare the inanimate and the living, there are
also terms in which similes and personifications are used for humorous purposes and
comparison.
Hyperbole(/haprbli/; Greek: , huperbol, from (hupr, above)
+ (bll, "I throw")) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis (lit. "growth"). In poetry and oratory, it
emphasizes, evokes strong feelings, and creates strong impressions. As a figure of speech, it is
usually not meant to be taken literally.[1][2]
Alliteration is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated sound of the first consonant in a
series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.
[1]
"Alliteration" from the Latin word litera, meaning letters of the alphabet, and the first known
use of the word to refer to a literary device occurred around 1624. [2] Alliteration narrowly refers to
the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed,[3][4]
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as in James Thomson's verse "Comedragging the lazy languid Line along".[6] Another
example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".
A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers to something as being the same as another thing for
rhetorical effect.[1] It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Where
a simile compares two items, a metaphor directly equates them, and does not use "like" or "as"
as does a simile. One of the most commonly cited examples of a metaphor in English literature is
the "All the world's a stage" monologue from As You Like it.
Personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts
such as nations, emotions and natural forces likes seasons and the weather.
Both have ancient roots as storytelling and artistic devices, and most cultures have traditional
fables with anthropomorphized animals as characters. People have also routinely attributed
human emotions and behavioural traits to wild as well as domestic animals. [3
n onomatopoeia ( /nomtpi, -m-/,[1][2] or chiefly NZ /-pe/; from
i

the Greek ;[3] for "name"[4] and for "I make",[5] adjectival form:
"onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests
the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the
property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as
"oink", "miaow" (or "meow"), "roar" or "chirp". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all
languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of;[6]
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hence the sound of a clock may be tick tockin English, d d in Mandarin, or katchin

katchin in Japanese, or "tik-tik" (-) in Hindi.

An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, less commonly the Greek-style oxymora) is a figure of
speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory. Oxymorons appear in a variety

of contexts, including inadvertent errors (such as "ground pilot") and literary oxymorons crafted to
reveal a paradox.