1. Simile Definition: A comparison using “like” or “as”. Examples:
She floated in like a cloud.
It’s as cool as the back side of the pillow.
The students were as busy as bees.

2. Metaphor
Definition: A figure of speech stating that two things are similar.
Examples:
The book was a passport to adventure.
You are what you eat.
Her hair was silk.

3. Personification Definition: Giving human qualities to ideas or things.
Examples:
His stomach growled like a beast.
The sun smiled down on us with its warmth.
The tree shook its branches angrily.

4. Onomatopoeia Definition: Words whose sounds suggest its meanings.
Examples:
The bees buzzed.
The rain went drip, drop, drip on the roof.
Smash! The glass shattered on the floor.

5. Alliteration
Defintion: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Examples:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Silly Sally sang a silly summer song.

6. Imagery
Defintion: Creating pictures for the senses (through similes or metaphors)
Examples:
He fumed and charged like an angry bull.
They fought like cats and dogs.

7. Hyperbole Definition: An extreme exaggeration for emphasis.
Example: I must have eaten a million pieces of candy on Halloween.