The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

It is used when you give an animal or object qualities or abilities that only a human can have.

a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of poetry or prose

You were as brave as a lion.

He's running faster than the wind.

Hear the mellow wedding bells.

Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said this butter's bitter.

Lightning danced across the sky.

Kisses are the flowers of affection.