Here are the meanings and examples for the figures of speech: a) Alliteration Meaning:* The repetition of an initial consonant sound in multiple words in a phrase or sentence. Example:* Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. b) Assonance Meaning:* The repetition of vowel sounds across words or within words. Example: The light of the fire is quite a sigh*t. c) Consonance Meaning:* The repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the end of words, but with different vowel sounds. Example:* Mike likes his new bike. d) Personification Meaning:* Attributing human qualities or actions to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. Example: The wind whispered* secrets through the trees. e) Rhythm Meaning:* The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry or prose, creating a musical quality. Example: "Shall I comPARE thee TO a SUM-mer's DAY*?" (The alternating stressed and unstressed syllables create a rhythm). f) Rhyme Meaning:* The repetition of similar sounds (usually, exactly the same sound) in the final stressed syllables and any following unstressed syllables of two or more words. Example: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are*." g) Metaphor Meaning: A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as," stating that one thing is* another. Example: Her smile is the sun* that brightens my day. h) Simile Meaning:* A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as." Example: The runner was as fast as a cheetah*.