By: Nathan Towery

Simile  Uses to things to compare like or as. He is as slow as a turtle.

Metaphor  To things that are being compared without using like or as.  The people are animals.

Personification  Giving human traits to objects or ideas.  The water shivered with the sunlight.

Onomatopoeia  Words that represent the actual sound of something are words of onomatopoeia.  The rain drops fell on the house.

Hyperbole  Exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.  He is a million years old.

Understatement  Expression with less strength than expected.  We will be there in no time.

Alliteration  Mrs. Shook should surely sleep late.  The repetition of the first consonant sound in words.

Idioms  Expressions that don’t mean what exactly what they say.  When her company went out of business her money went down the drain.