This document defines and provides examples of common figures of speech including simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, irony, and hyperbole. Simile compares two things using "like" or "as", metaphor directly compares two things, and personification attributes human qualities to non-human things. Apostrophe addresses absent people or things, onomatopoeia imitates natural sounds, and oxymoron combines opposite meanings. Irony uses words to mean the opposite of their literal meaning, and hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is.
