A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"

Compares two things at length

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I feel glorious, glorious

Got a chance to start again

I was born for this, born for this

It's who I am, how could I forget?

-Macklemore, "Glorious"

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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I like that boom boom pow

Them chickens jackin' my style

-The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow"

Human qualities given to animals, objects or ideas

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Hey, diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

-"Hey Diddle, Diddle" nursery rhyme

Using objects to represent ideas or qualities

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Last night, while I lay thinking here,

Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear

And pranced and partied all night long

And sang their same old Whatif song:

Whatif I’m dumb in school?

Whatif they’ve closed the swimming pol?

Whatif I get beat up?

Whatif there’s poison in my cup?

Whatif I start to cry?

-"Whatif" by Shel Silverstein

Repeating the same word or phrase to make an idea clearer or show its importance

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I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

-"The Sound of Silence," Simon and Garfunkel

A word the imitates the natural sound of a thing

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You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch

You really are a heel

You're as cuddly as a cactus

You're as charming as an eel

-"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"

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I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Repetition of the same sounds in a group of words

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And I'm so sick of love songs, so tired of tears

So done with wishing you were still here

Said I'm so sick of love songs, so sad and slow

So why can't I turn off the radio?

-Ne-Yo, "So Sick"

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"Your love is a symphony

All around me

Running through me

Your love is a melody

Underneath me

Running to me"

-Switchfoot, "Your Love is a Song"

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You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it

You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes

You’re paralyzed

‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night

And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.

-Michael Jackson, "Thriller"

Correspondence of sound between words or ending of words

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For the first time in history

It's gonna start raining men

It's raining men, Hallelujah

It's raining men, amen

-The Weather Girls, "It's Raining Men"

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They put me in the oven to bake.

Me, a deprived and miserable cake.

Feeling the heat, I started to bubble.

Watching the others, I knew I was in trouble.

-"The Life of a Cupcake," by Shelby Greer