All terms in this list:

simile: A in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as.

metaphor: The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a .

personification: A figure of speech, prosopopeia, in which an inanimate object or an abstraction is given human qualities.

hyperbole: Extreme or overstatement; especially as a or rhetorical device.

alliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines:

assonance: The of similar or identical sounds (though with different ), usually in or .

allusion: An ; a ; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not mentioned; a indication.