Similes: A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.
Example: "Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity."(Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary)

Metaphors:A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
Example: "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")

Personification: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities.
Example : "The operation is over. On the table, the knife lies spent, on its side, the bloody meal smear-dried upon its flanks. The knife rests."(Richard Selzer, "The Knife")

Rhyme: Identity or close similarity of sound between accented syllables
Example : Yes, the zebra is fine.But I think it's a shame,Such a marvelous beastWith a cart that's so tame.The story would really be better to hearIf the driver I saw were a charioteer.A gold and blue chariot's something to meet, Rumbling like thunder down Mulberry Street!"(Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street)

Rhythm: In poetics, the recurring alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in sentences or lines of verse.
Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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