1. Simile :direct comparison --- as , like Example: And logic as deadly dry bone 2.

Metaphor : indirect comparison Example: The camel is the ship of the desert. * The camel is indirectly compared to a ship. Ship is used to cross an ocean similarly a camel is also used to cross a desert. 3. Personification: human qualities inanimate and abstract things. Example: The hills whose flowers never fed the been flowers . *The flowers are said to have a human quality of being fed so it is an example of personification. 4. Alliteration : repetition of consonant sounds. Example: An pressing the small poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. 5. Hyperbole : An exaggeration statement Example:I cried a thousand times 6. Transferred Epithet :adjective transferred from noun to another closely related to it. Example: Transformed to a creeping lust of milk Creeping ----- transferred from eat to lust

Onomatopoeia : words which signify sounds. Example:The little black cat is purring there. 8. Repetition :repetition of words or phrases. Example: From dewy dawn to dewy night. 9. Antithesis : opposite ideas or words Example: Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast. 10. Metonymy: An attribute of a thing is represented by another closely related to it. Example: Her world is an infinite shapeless white. *Infinite shapeless white signifies the saucer of milk. 11. Synecdoche : A part stands for the whole or whole stands for a part. Example: This heart of me weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home. *The part heart stands for the poet. 12. Litotes : use of negative word to convey positive meaning. Example: He makes no motion but is right. * The negation conveys a positive meaning that the spider is still but to his advantage.