| A | B |
| Simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | comparison |
| Personification | human characteristics to an animal or object |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same letter |
| Onomatopoeia | word that imitates natural sound |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration so dramatic no one believes |
| Idioms | individual words have different meaning than words combined |
| Symbolism | object representing another to give different meaning |
| Apostrophe | speaker address an imaginary person |
| Consonance | repetitive consonant sounds |
| Assonance | repetitive vowel sounds |