The document defines and provides examples of several common figures of speech, including metaphor, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron, idiom, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, and allusion. It compares two unlike things or attributes human traits to objects to describe something in an interesting way.

2. It is a figure of
speech that makes
a comparison,
showing
similarities
between two
different things.
“The soldier stood
rigid as a tree.”

3. A resemblance
of two
contradictory or
different objects
is made based
on a single or
common
characteristics.
“He is the black
sheep of the family.”

4. It is a figure of speech in which a thing –
an idea or an animal is given human
attributes.
“The sky weeps.”

5. is the use of exaggeration
or overstatement to make
a point
“I am so hungry I could
eat a horse.”

6. is the use of contradictory terms.
“His new girlfriend is pretty ugly.”

7. "We're busy doing nothing."
Bing Crosby

8. replaces the name of a thing with the name
of something else with which it is closely
associated
“Pen is mightier than a sword.”

9. is a literary device in which a part of
something represents the whole.
“Kyle is proud about his new wheels.”

10. is a direct address to something
inanimate or dead or absent.
“Why don't you ever work, you
stupid computer?”

11. refers to any scientific, historical, literary, or
biblical event or figure.
“Tara’s Achilles heel is her hair.”
"You are a Solomon when it comes
to making decisions."