| A | B |
| Example Simile | The test was as easy as a lazy summer day. |
| Example Personification | The wind whispered promises of spring. |
| Example Alliteration | Dan darted dangerously into traffic. |
| Example Onomatopoeia | Her shoes clacked against the pavement. |
| Example Hyperbole | I could sleep for ten million years. |
| Example Metaphor | Chanel is an Einstein. |
| Example Idiom | You drive me up a wall. |
| Example that uses like, as, or than, but is not a simile because it is not comparing unlike things | I watched carefully as Wyatt slipped his soda bottle into his backpack. |