Figure of speech

• Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
• Hyperbole: exaggeration not meant to be taken literally; overstatement
• Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
• Alliteration- the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words in a line of poetry
• Onomatopoeia- a word that imitates the sound it describes
• Simile- a comparison between two different things using "like" or "as". Similes use these words to show how two things are alike.
• Metaphor- a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as". A metaphor states one thing is another.