1. Figurative and Poetic devices

2. Hyperbole
Your suitcase weighs a ton!

3. Half Rhyme
Hold/Bald

4. Irony
The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”.

5. Personification
To give human or personal qualities to inanimate things or ideas

6. Simile
My love is like a red, red rose.

7. Allusion
Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.

8. Personification
The old mansion frowned down at us from the top of the hill

9. Simile
My brain is like a sponge.

10. assonance
I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.

11. Simile
The moonless night was as dark as black velvet.

12. Personification
I remember his sweaty brow seemed to weep at my every move.

13. Allusion
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

14. Onomatopoeia
“Hissed”

15. Alliteration
Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly.

16. Consonance
The zoo was amazing especially the lizards and chimpanzees.

17. Onomatopoeia
“crackle”

18. Metaphor
My heart’s a stereo.

19. Half rhyme
Shape/keep

20. Hyperbole
Her head was so full of ideas that it was ready to burst wide open.

21. Metaphor
He was a library of information about baseball.

22. Anaphora
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend out island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

23. Simile
Creating a strong comparison between two things using like or as.

24. hyperbole
The suspense is killing me.

25. Alliteration
Seven steaks sizzled.

26. Epistrophe
“….that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

27. Assonance
He saw the cost and hauled off.

28. Alliteration
The grass grew green in the graveyard.

29. Consonance
Eric liked the black book.

30. Rhyme
I left my punch card in the lunch yard.

31. Allusion
She had a Cinderella wedding.

32. Personification
The hours crawled by like years.

33. Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

34. Idiom
It is raining cats and dogs.

35. Rhyme
Wall/hall

36. Epistrophe
“I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper.”

37. Hyperbole
To make a point by exaggerating.

38. Alliteration
Using several words near each other that start with the same sound.

39. Anaphora
“My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”