Examples
"I've told you a million times!"
hyperbole
Ex: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..”
Antithesis
“crown” for “royalty.”
Metonymy
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Chiasmus
calling the Atlantic Ocean “the pond.”
Understatement or
meiosis
"He has a heart of gold."
metaphor
"Passed away"
euphemism
I became well red by reading in the sun.
pun
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?":
Apostrophe
Hamlet: ''I must be cruel, only to be kind''.
Paradox
"She was a modern-day Cleopatra."
Allusion
ABCs for alphabet
Synecdoche
Life is short, life is fragile, life is precious
Anaphora
As quiet as a mouse:
Simile
The Titanic was touted as an “unsinkable” ship, yet it sank on its first voyage.
Irony
"The sun smiled down on us"
Personification
“I beat when I speak because I just
got fleeced.”
assonance
"Awfully good, "Bittersweet, "Same difference,
Oxymoron
The big bad bear bored the baby bunnies by the bushes.
alliteration
“Are you also aware, Mrs Bueller, that Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record?”
Litotes
buzz..roar
Onomatopoeia