Examples
You're running around like a madman!
SIMILE
This term is a "saying" that people use. What we ACTUALLY mean is different from the literal wording.
IDIOM
The wind screamed at me as it blew past.
PERSONIFICATION
Oh, I can show you around - I've been there a thousand times!
HYPERBOLE
The babbling baboon beat his best bud at badminton.
ALLITERATION
You're a diamond, never forget that.
METAPHOR
Now, every time I see daisies, I'm forced to think about that trip and everything that went wrong.
SYMBOLISM
From above, I saw lights of every color streaming across the sky. When I gazed down below, nothing looked back up at me.
JUXTAPOSITION
Each step: Tick, tick, tick. The sound followed me everywhere.
ONOMATOPOEIA
My hands looked as if I were 100 years old.