Metaphor

Comparisons between two unlike things, not using like or as. 

Simile

A comparison between two unlike things using like or as to express the comparison.

Personification

A figure of speech which gives animals, ideas, or inanimate objects human traits or abilities.

Imagery

Words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.

Alliteration

Repetition of two or more initial sounds in words within a line of poetry

Rhyme

Identical sounds at the ends of two or more words to create a chiming or musical quality.