Figure of Speech

It is an explicit or direct comparison between two things of different classes.

It is bolder than simile and the comparison is implied or indirect between two objects of different classes

A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

It names a part of an object to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part.

It involves the use of a term connected with an object to represent that object.

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

It is putting side by side of two normally contradictory words.

It is saying something which seems untrue, but on close examination, proves to be true or partly true.

It is a casual reference either by directly or by borrowing familiar phrases from the bible, history or literature.

It involves a contrast, a discrepancy between the expected and what actually happens.