Simile

A rhetorical figure that shows comparison or likeness of two objects through some comparitive word such as like or as.

Curley was flopping like a fish on a line.

Scott runs as fast as a cheetah.

                                                                                                                                                                   

              

Synecdoche

Metaphor that uses a part of a whole to take its place.

Farmer Joe has three hundred cattle and three hired hands.

If i had wheels, I'd put on my best tweeds and ask for Mary's hand in marriage.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Symploce

Combining andphora and epistrophe, so that one word or phrase is repeated at the begging and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.

      

When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Understatement

Representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out of the facts.

The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage.

                                                                                                                                                                  

Zeugma

use of a word to modify two or more words when it is only appropriate to one or is appropriate to each but in a different way.

On his fishing trip the caught three bass and a cold.