Figure of speech that directly compares two things by using words such as "like", "as", "so", or " than"

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Uses exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

• personification

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

It is a visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image of the object.

• irony

• imagery

• allusion

• idioms

This figure of speech makes reference to an object, person or place unrelated to the context. It is left to the audience to make the direct connection.

• allusion

• idioms

• metaphor

• personification

This figure of speech gives human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• allusion

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

This figurative device is a phrase or a group of words established by having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words or expression.

• idiom

• irony

• metaphor

• simile

This figure of speech uses words to convey a meaning that is opposite of what is actually said.

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

• hyperbole

Words or expression that are informal in nature and generally represent a certain region or time.

• colloquialism

• hyperbole

• irony

• metaphor

My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and re-plaiting so that now my scalp tingles. Whenever I turn my head quickly, my nose fills with the faint smell of Dixie Peach hair grease.

• imagery

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

hear what must be the singing and talking of all the children in the world,

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor