This document provides information about figures of speech and examples of their use. It begins with a definition of figures of speech as uses of language that enhance clarity, force, beauty or vividness of expression by departing from literal meanings. There are two main types - literal language using ordinary meanings, and figurative language using non-literal meanings. The document then lists and defines three common figures of speech: similes which use "like" or "as" to explicitly compare two unlike things, metaphors which implicitly compare two unlike things, and personification which gives human qualities to non-human or abstract things. Several examples of sentences using different figures of speech are provided, and students are tasked with identifying