As busy as ants in a colony
Metaphor:
Love is a journey
Personification:
The stars danced across the night sky.
Hyperbole:
I was laughing so hard, my sides hurt
Oxymoron:
deafening silence
Alliteration:
Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper
Paradox:
More haste, less speed
Litotes:
He is not unkind