- Onomatopedia: a sound expressed in words: "boom!"
- metaphor: a direct relation shown without using the words like or as: "Your eyes are emeralds"
- Simile: a relation to something using the words like or as: Your eyes are like emeralds"
- Rhyme: repetition of words with the same ending in different phrases:"hall, fall, ball"
- Personification: Giving human qualities to a non human thing: "The lamp sat on the table"
- Repetition: repiting of the same word:" baby baby baby oooo"
- Hyperbole: an extreme exageration: "there were 10,000 million people in the event
- Alliteration:in a phrase, all the words starting with the same letter: "Peter piper picked a peck"
-Assonance: repetition of vowel inside the words of a phrase: "he saw a ball far away"
- Imagery: reference the five senses to create picture in the reader´s mind:"the recently baked
- Allusion: to make reference to something in another literary way: "dont be such a dog! you ate all over the table
- Apostophre: to talk to something not alive or non present: "death, do not be proud"
- Allegory: a verse or poem with 2 meanings: "
- Understatement: stating an obvious thing: "Mr.Grinch you look a little green today(the grinch is green)"
- Paradox: to opposite ideas working together: "war is peace"
- Irony: saying something that sounds funny or hipocrat because of what is said in the area: "there is no fighting in here, this is the war room!"
- Synecdoche: a part representing a whole: "all hands on deck(not hands but the entire sailor"