1. Metaphor
Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action despite the application couldn’t be literal.
E.g.
"Time flies."
Time does not literally fly, but as it goes away, we can say that it does.
2. Simile
Is a comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
E.g.
"She's as sharpe as a knife"
A knife is actually sharp but is obvious that the girl could no be literally as it, but she can be in a certain way smart and accurate as a knife.
3. Hyperbole
Is an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally.
E.g.
"Her smile was as big as the sky.
Obviously a smile could no be as wide as the sky, but in a certain way the image is sent and it refers to a very big smile to the person that describes.
4. Idiom
Group of words that, when together, mean something not deducible from meanings of the individual words.
E.g.
"They live like cats and dogs.
They can’t because they are not cats and they are not dogs, but is figurative of a constant fight among them.
5. Personification
When an personal attribution of a human characteristic is used to describe something nonhuman.
E.g.
"The whistle of the ocean"
The ocean does not actually whistle like a person, but in certain way the sound it makes is mentioned as it is.
6. Allusion
Saying something or mentioning something that cannot happen as a matter of fact.
E.g.
"I was worried my nose would grow like Pinocchio's."
It’s obvious that it won’t happen, but it is mentioned as it could be.
7. Onomatopoeia
It’s a written sound.
E.g.
Guau guau, for a barking dog,
Miau miau, for a cat,
Knock knock, for a door, and so on.
8. Alliteration
It’s whence have a repeated sound of the first or second letter in a string of words, or by repeating of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a string of words.
E.g.
"She sells seashells down by the seashore."
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
