1. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

2. ALLUSION "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." (Senator Barack Obama)

3. ASSONANCE And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; Edgar Allen Poe’s “THE RAVEN”

4. HYPERBOLE Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then still another thousand, then a hundred (Catullus)

5. METAPHOR "Between the lower east side tenements the sky is a snotty handkerchief.“ (Marge Piercy, "The Butt of Winter")

6. METONYMY "The pen is mightier than the sword," meaning literary power is superior to military force. "The House was called to order," meaning the members in the House. "We have always remained loyal to the crown." "He is a man of the cloth"

7. PERSONIFICATION The sun kissed the flowers. The wind was whistling. The grass was dancing. Opportunity began to knock on my door.flowers

8. SIMILE "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." (Carl Sandburg) "My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain." (W.H. Auden) "He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food." (Raymond Chandler)

9. SYMBOL The ELEPHANT and the DONKEY?????