The document discusses six writing techniques: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and assonance. It provides examples for each technique. Simile compares one thing to another using like or as. Metaphor directly states one thing is another. Personification gives human qualities to objects. Alliteration repeats sounds in a sentence. Onomatopoeia imitates sounds. Assonance repeats vowel sounds.