hyperbole

An extreme exaggeration

eg. he's 900 years old!

I've waited in line's for centuries!
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!

rhyme

Has the same sound at the end of a word (words that sound the same)

Eg. Cat & Hat
Cold & Bold
Play & Hay

repetition

A sound, word, syllable, line, stanza, or phrase repeated

Eg. Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the kings horses and all the Kings men

Couldn't put Humpty together again

oxymoron

Two opposite things that explain one thing

eg. Cruel kindness

Bitter sweet

A little big

simile

Comparing two things using like or as

eg. She runs like the wind
He was as fat as a hippo
It was as cold as the Artic

symbol

a thing that symbolizes or represents something (mostly a feeling)

eg. A rose stands for love
A dove stands for peace

A lion stands for courage

personification

Giving human qualities to things that are non-living

eg. the stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky

the run-down house appeared depressed

the first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow

metaphor

using another word when your explaining something

eg. He has the heart of a lion
It's raining cats and dogs

His hair is bone white

consonance

The repeating of consonants inside a word (not vowels)

eg. Dress and Boss

Litter and Batter

First and Last

assonance

the repitition of vowel sounds in a group of words

eg. Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese

Try to light the fire

Hear the mellow wedding bells

allusion

refering to something either historical, bibical, or political

eg. I am no Prince Hamlet

Oh, stop being such a Romeo

I'm as smart as Einstein

alliteration

A group of two words or more that have to the same sounds at the beginning

eg. Alice's Aunt ate apples and acorns around August- A's

Nick's Nephew needed new notebooks now or never- N's

Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating much chaos- C's