Figurative Language
Your love is like sunlight.
Simile
Someone shopping for a mattress lays down on a really firm one and says, "It's so soft, I may float away."
Verbal Irony
I stopped hunting as much and began hanging out more in the trading center with Geoffrey and Gilbert. We met other boys for endless rounds of bawo, a popular mancala game played with marbles on a long wooden board lined with holes.
1st Person
Johnny has to call his mom so that he can be picked up from school. Unfortunately, his phone has died, and the power went out in the school. He has no way to call his mom or charge his phone.
Character vs. technology
In "Megamind," Megamind, the main character, helps a lowly cameraman become a superhero named Titan after his original rival dies. Titan trains just because he thinks being a superhero will get him a girlfriend. When it doesn't, he takes it out on Megamind by becoming a villain. What role does Titan play?
Antagonist
The meadow was quiet and warm under the light of the midday sun.
Imagery
A man who needs medical assistance is run over by the ambulance sent to help him.
Situational Irony
"At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. Finally a local, enervated by graffiti, shuffles into the station. You get a seat and hoist a copy of the New York Post. The Post is the most shameful of your several addictions."
2nd Person
Johnny's parents recently got a divorce. Johnny worries that he is partially to blame, since his parents would argue about how he behaved at school. It isn't his fault, but it does make him sad.
Character vs. Self
In The Hunger Games, Peeta starts off as just anther tributes in the games who fights against the Capitol's power. At the end of Catching Fire, it's revealed that he's now acting as a spokesperson in support of the Capitol.
Dynamic Character
Gas is costing an arm and a leg right now.
Hyperbole
Dramatic Irony
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
3rd person omniscient
Johnny decides to skip his Spanish class because he knew that there are presentations today. He decides to hide in the bathroom until E lunch, and then he'll go to his band class at the end of the day. Unfortunately, Johnny gets a referral, because skipping class breaks school rules!
Character vs. Society
In Fallout 4, your character starts off as just another person living in a suburb. That all changes when atomic bombs are dropped.
Inciting Action
Our parting was bitter sweet.
Oxymoron
A mother complains about her lazy children, not realizing they have been secretly making her a birthday present.
What was the good of magicking himself out of his room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it? Yet life at Privet Drive had reached an all-time low. Now that the Dursleys knew they weren't going to wake up as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon. Dobby might have saved Harry from horrible happenings at Hogwarts, but the way things were going, he'd probably starve to death anyway.
3rd Person Limited
Johnny lets three goats loose in the school. They've turned on him, and now he has to fight his way to the security office to get help.
Character vs. Nature
At the end of the Harry Potter series, after Voldemort is defeated using the Elder Wand, Harry chooses to destroy it so that no one else can use its power.
The cow yelled when it was running from the farmer.
Personification
Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. The animals knew that this was not the case.
Dramatic irony
"The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o'clock; in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 25th. But in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took less than two hours, so it could begin at ten o'clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner."
3rd Person Objective
Johnny is really into astrology. He's a Scorpio, and when he looks at his horoscope, it tells him to be warry of steep things. He spends all day avoiding stairs, elevators, and even curbs on sidewalks. On his way home from school, he finally relaxes, only to be hit by a person driving their car while steeping tea.
Character vs. Fate
The story of the tortoise and the hare has a few simple message: "Slow and steady wins the race!"
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