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Explanation:
Five main figures of speech we use in our daily prose:
1.) A simile is a figure of speech that uses comparison. In a simile, we use two specific words “like” and “as” to compare two unlikely things, that actually have nothing in common.
She is as brave as a lion.
2.) A metaphor and a simile are quite similar actually. A metaphor also uses compares to things that are in no way similar. It does so to bring out the symbolism. A metaphor is a word or phrase used to show its similarity to another thing. It helps to explain an idea, but if you take a metaphor at its literal meaning it will sound absurd.
Alex is a chicken which suggests that Alex is a coward or he's frightened.
3.) In personification, we personify or represent a non-human entity as human. We give an inanimate object or an intangible idea of some human qualities such as emotions, or gestures or even speech.
time ran away from him”, “the boat danced in the puddle”, “the car died in the middle of the road” etc.
4.) Hyperbole in the Greek language translates to ‘excess’. And that is what it does, it exaggerates. We use hyperboles to emphasize the importance or overstate something.
"Since he has been away from home he has gotten as thin as a toothpick". Obviously, he has not gotten as thin as a toothpick, we only exaggerate to emphasize on how thin he has become.
5.) Onomatopoeia refers to those words that imitate the sounds of an object or person.
"The bees buzzed around in the garden". Here the word ‘buzzed’ is indicating the sound coming from the bees.
