This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech used to create vivid images and convey meaning effectively. It discusses metaphor, simile, hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, irony, onomatopoeia, personification, pun, anticlimax, and sarcasm - comparing concepts without or with "like" and "as", exaggerating to emphasize a point, repeating consonant or vowel sounds, implying the opposite, imitating sounds, giving human traits to non-human things, playing on words with similar sounds and different meanings, building up but concluding flatly and unexpectedly, and being hurtfully ironic. It also gives examples to illustrate each figure of speech.