* "Her laugh was like a tinkling bell."
* "He moved as silently as a ghost."
* "The sky was as blue as the ocean."
Metaphors
* "The world is a stage, and we are all just players."
* "Love is a battlefield."
* "Life is a journey, not a destination."
Personification
* "The wind whispered through the trees."
* "The fire danced in the fireplace."
* "The stars twinkled in the night sky."
Hyperbole
* "I was so tired, I could sleep for a week."
* "I laughed so hard, I thought I would die."
* "It was so hot outside, I felt like I was going to melt."
Alliteration
* "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
* "Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb."
* "She sells seashells by the seashore."
Onomatopoeia
* "The buzz of the bee."
* "The hiss of the snake."
* "The roar of the lion."
Assonance
* "The cat sat on the mat."
* "The dog ran in the fog."
* "The sun shone on the stone."
Consonance
* "The red dress."
* "The big bag."
* "The black cat."
Allusion
* "He was a regular Don Juan."
* "She was a regular Cinderella."
* "They were like Romeo and Juliet."
Symbolism
* The dove is a symbol of peace.
* The rose is a symbol of love.
* The cross is a symbol of Christianity.