This document defines and provides examples of various types of figurative language including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, idiom, onomatopoeia, and alliteration. Similes compare two unlike things using like or as, metaphors do the same without those words, personification gives human traits to non-humans, hyperboles are exaggerated untruths, symbols represent abstract ideas, idioms don't mean their literal meaning, onomatopoeias imitate sounds, and alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds.