random
Busy as a bee
Simile
that guy is a skyscraper!
metaphor
love and hate aren't so far apart
paradox
fast snail
oxymoron
When the reader/watcher thinks something will happen but something else does
situational irony
throw in the towel
idiom
the weekend goes by in like two seconds
hyperbole
used to make a serious situation funny
comedic understatement
to defuse a tense situation
polite understatement
to downplay a great achievement
modest understatement
a nicer word instead of a meaner one
euphemism
you're a total Einstein
allusion
that's so punny
pun
one-won
homophone
tear-tear
homograph
the cake screamed
personifacation
the audience knows something that characters don't
dramatic irony