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- Alliteration
| - The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
| - The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we'll walk by.
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- Assonance
| - A resemblance of sound in words or syllables
| - holy & stony
- and
- Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
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- Cliche
| - A word or phrase that has become overly familiar or commonplace
| - No pain, no gain
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- Hyperbole
| - Big exaggeration, usually with humor
| - mile-high ice-cream cones
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- Idiom
| - The language peculiar to a group of people
| - She sings at the top of her lungs.
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- Metaphor
| - Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them.
| - I'm drowning in money.
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- Onomatopoeia
| - Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it.
| - buzz, hiss, roar, woof
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- Personification
| - Giving something human qualities
| - The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him close.
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- Simile
| - A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
| - The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky.
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