Examples:

a.as cold as ice

b.as busy as a bee

c.as proud as a lion

d.like a shining star

e.like a pearl on a string

Metaphor

Examples:

a.He is a lion when in a battle.

b.a sea of troubles

c.all the world’s a stage

d.comrade of brothers

e.the sea is my mother

Hyperbole

Examples:

a.”He has a brain the size of a pea.”

b.”I could eat a horse.”

c.”I’ve heard that a million times.”

d.”She is a hundred feet tall.”

e.

Personification

Examples:

a.the flowers were suffering from the immense heat

b.sitting on a table

c.An example of personification can be found in John Keats’s “To Autumn”: the fall season is personified as “sitting careless on a granary floor” and “drowsed with the fume of poppies” (line 17).

d.In John Donne’s Holy Sonnet X, death is personified as a “slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men” (line 9).

e.

Metonymy

Examples:

a.The sails crossed the ocean.

b.Lend me your ear.

c.

d.

e.

Onomatopoeia

Examples:

a.buzz

b.click

c.oink

d.quack

e.meow

Synedoche

Examples:

a.”The beak that grips her, she becomes.”

b.Draw thy sword, That if my speech offend a noble heart Thy arm may do thee justice.

c.The hand that signed the paper felled a city;

d.”Give us this day our daily bread.”

e.And cried, A sail! a sail!

Climax

Examples:

a.”One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

b.Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.”

c.The shepherds’ swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my love,

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe

d.But she would weep to see today

how on his skin the swart flies move;

the dust upon the paper eye

and the burst stomach like a cave.

‘Vergissmeinnicht’ by Keith Douglas

e.

Irony

Examples:

a.It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word.

b.The two parties in his audience were, first, the dogmatist, moved by pity and contempt to enlighten this ignorance, and, secondly, those who knew their Socrates and set themselves to watch the familiar game in which learning should be turned inside out by simplicity.

c.

d.

e.

Pun

Examples:

a.A sign in a golf-cart shop reads “When drinking, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.

b.I moss say I’m taking a lichen to that fun-gi, even though his jokes are in spore taste. Algae the first to say that they mushroom out of control.

c.

d.

e.

Apostrophe

Examples:

a.the cat’s whiskers.

b.some people’s eyes

c.for convenience’s sake

d.my sister’s friend’s investments

e.Those things over there are my husband’s.

Litotes

Examples:

a.”He was not unfamiliar with the works of Dickens.”

b.”The food was not bad.”

c.”Reaching the moon was no ordinary task.”

d.”That was no big deal.”

e.”Don’t fail me now!”

Examples:

a. She was as lazy as a girl who wouldn’t do her own homework

Im not going to win am i?