2. Metaphors
Definition from wordcentral.com : a figure of speech in
which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or
idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity
between them (as in the ship plows the sea)
Definition from dictionary.com : a figure of speech in
which a term or phrase is applied to something to which
it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a
resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
5. Simile
Definition of a simile at
wordcentral.com: a figure of speech
in which things different in kind or
quality are compared by the use of
the word like or as (as in eyes like
stars
Definition of a simile at
dictionary.com:
a figure of speech in which two unlike
things are explicitly
compared, as in “she is like a rose”
9. Definition of hyperbole at wordcentral.com:
extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a
point <"mile-high ice cream cones" is an example
of hyperbole>
Definition of hyperbole dictionary.com:
an extravagant statement or figure of speech
not intended
to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
12. Onomatopoeia
Definition from wordcentral.com: 1 : the naming of a
thing or action by imitation of natural sounds (as "buzz"
or "hiss") ALSO, the use of words whose sound suggests
the sense
Definition from dicitonary.com:
the formation of which, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boo
m, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with
its referent.
15. Personification
Definition of personification from
www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/pers
onif.htm: Personification is giving
human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or
characteristics) to non-living objects.
Definition of Personification from
lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/personific
ation-examples-2848.html:
Personification is the act of attributing
human traits and qualities to inanimate
objects
18. Alliteration
Definition at wordcentral.com: the
repetition of a sound at the beginning of
two or more neighboring words (as in wild
and woolly or a babbling brook)
Definition at dictionary.com: the
commencement of two or more stressed
syllables of a word group either with the
same consonant sound or sound group
(consonantal alliteration), as in from
stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that
may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic
alliteration),
21. Idioms
Definition at wordcentral.com: an
expression that cannot be understood
from the meanings of its separate words
but must be learned as a whole <the
expression "give way," meaning "retreat,"
is an idiom>
Definition at dictionary.com: an expression
whose meaning is not predictable from the
usual meanings of its constituent
elements, as kick the bucket or hang
one's head, or from the general
grammatical rules of a language, as the
table round for the round table, and that
is not a constituent of a larger expression
of like characteristics.
