Simile – a comparison of two things, usually using the words “like” or “as”.

Metaphor – a comparison of two things, without the words “like” or “as”. It is saying that one thing *is* another, figuratively speaking.

Hyperbole – exaggeration of something to get a point across.

Personification – giving human qualities to an animal, plant, idea, or inanimate object.

Metonymy – the use of a word for a concept with which the original concept behind this word is associated. (The sails crossed the ocean.)

Onomatopeia – words that describe a sound (buzz, etc.)

Synedoche – a common way to emphasize an important aspect of a fictional character; for example, a character might be consistently described by a single body part, such as the eyes, which comes to represent the character.

Climax – the high point in a story, usually when a conflict comes to a point.

Irony – All the different senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity, or a gap between an understanding of reality, or expectation of a reality, and what actually happens. There are different kinds of irony. For example:

Tragic (or dramatic) irony occurs when a character on stage or in a story is ignorant, but the audience watching knows his or her eventual fate, as in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

Socratic irony takes place when someone (classically a teacher) pretends to be foolish or ignorant, to expose the ignorance of another (and the teaching-audience, but not the student-victim, realizes the teacher’s plot).

Cosmic irony is when a higher being or force interferes in a character’s life, creating ironic settings.

Pun – a play on words having a double meaning.

Apostrophe – a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing. For example, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony addresses the corpse of Caesar.

Litotes – a figure of speech in which a speaker, rather than making a certain claim, denies its opposite; for example, rather than call a person attractive, one might say she’s “not too bad to look at”.

If you really can’t figure out examples, go online and google these terms. You’ll find tons of examples, and your research will serve you better than mine will.

you can recognise a simile by the words as or like.. so you can try making examples… he was ugly as a mouse… she looks like a cow…. thinks like that

a metaphor is a comparison without the words as or like… he is a pig, she is a cow… (it is the same thing as before, u get the idea but without using like or as)

hyperbole is an exageration.. so try thinking of something that happened but make it absurdly exagerated

onomatopeia is just sounds like, knock knock, guau, miao, cri cri, ding dong…

climax…. try thinking of examples from books, the climax is the part when tension is highest, and then the action starts to conclude until the end…

perosnification is giving human attributes to objects.. like, that mirror has personality… or capitalizing a word the Cloud answer…

metonymy is a part for the whole.. like, the wood is coming, instead of the boat..

hope that helped =)

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-simile.html

it has lots of examples of simile

then type metaphor and all the other things in the search box(upper right)