| A | B |
|---|
| simile | She danced on the stage like a butterfly on the breeze. |
| metaphor | He was a bear on the field as he was bashing and wiping away foes. |
| onomatopoeia | From Shakespeare's The Tempest- "Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell: Hark! Now I hear them - Ding, dong, bell." |
| hyperbole | From To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell-An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest... |
| allusion | "Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities". |
| symbol | From Frost's The Road Not Taken- Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both |
| alliteration | From Frost's Acquainted With the Night- I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet |
| assonance | From Tomlinson's A Rose for Janet- I know this rose is only an ink-and-paper rose but see how it grows and goes on growing |
| consonance | From Tennyson's The Eagle- Ringed with the azure world he stands. |
| personification | From Plath's Mirror- I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike I am not cruel, only truthful – |
| oxymoron | From Donne's Devotion on Emergent Occasions- "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" |
