| A | B |
| She sells seashells by the seashore. | alliteration |
| Wily lies drive men to eat pie. | assonance |
| My mother is going to kill me when she sees this report card! | hyperbole |
| It was not unlike Claire to drive fast. | litotes |
| The lawyer was a bulldog in the courtroom. | metaphor |
| Pow! It hit me! | onomatopoeia |
| The over-easy eggs gazed up at me from the plate. | personification |
| “I cannot go to school today,” said little Peggy Ann McKay. | rhyme |
| The drum beats like thunder rolled across the courtyard. | simile |
| Richie wore some really nice threads today. | synecdoche |