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Imagery     Simile : like or as

Metaphor: Comparison but without like or as - typically more powerful  ‘their throat is an open grave’

Metonym:  Change of one noun for another ‘smoke of their torment’ (burnt up) ‘he stinketh’ (he is dead)

Synecdoche: uses a part for the whole  ‘I put no trust in my sword’ (my armor is not enough) (or my strength is nothing)

Hyperbole: exaggeration ‘The waves rose up to the sky and plunged down to the depths.’