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Metaphor: something is compared to something else without using the words "like" or "as" to make it obvious it is a comparison. "There was a sea of people at the concert": here a crowd is compared to a sea.

Simile: something is compared to something else directly using words like "like" or "as". "He walked into the party like he was walking onto a yacht."

Personification: talking about something inanimate as if it were a person. "The car made a real effort to get up that hill in third gear."

Synechdoche: where you use part of something to represent the whole thing. "We could sure use a hand over here."

Metonymy: where you use something associated with something else to represent it. "Car number 3 took the checkered flag."

Oxymoron: two opposing concepts are jammed together "Two more hours of boring excitement followed."

Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds especially at the start of words. "Bert Brydenhart bulked big in Painted Rock."

Zeugma: multiple objects of the same preposition which use the preposition in different senses. "She left in a rage and a taxi." "He hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps."

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