A) Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together.

Here are the meanings and examples for each figure of speech:

a) Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

b) Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds within words that are close together.
Example: The silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain. (Repetition of the short 'u' sound and 'i' sound)

c) Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words that are close together.
Example: Mike likes his new bike. (Repetition of the 'k' sound)

d) Personification: Giving human qualities or actions to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Example: The wind whispered secrets through the trees.

e) Rhythm: 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 summer's day? (The alternating stressed and unstressed syllables create an iambic rhythm).

f) Rhyme: The repetition of similar sounding words, usually at the end of lines in poetry.
Example: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are.

g) Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as." It states that one thing is another.
Example: The classroom was a zoo.

h) Simile: A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Example: Her smile was as bright as the sun.