I’ve told you a million times
to clean your room!

He has a heart of gold.

She is as fun as a barrel of monkeys.

Opportunity knocked on the door.

Metaphor: a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally (e.g., time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations)

Simile: a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as (e.g., O my love is like a red, red rose from Robert Burns's “A Red, Red Rose”)

Hyperbole: an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect (e.g., this book weighs a ton)

Personification: figurative language in which nonhuman things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities (e.g., necessity is the mother of invention)