The main figures of speech

Accumulation 
Accumulating arguments in a concise forceful manner.

Alliteration 
The use of words that begin with the same consonnant sound.

Anticlimax 
An outcome that is strikingly less important or dramatic than expected.

Assonance 
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighbouring words.

Hyperbaton
An inversion in the arrangement of common words.

Hyperbole
An extravagant statement, using exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.

Metaphore
A comparison between two unlike things that have nevertheless something important in common.

Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.

Simile 
A comparison formed with words or expressions (e.g. as / such as / like) between two fundamentally different things.

Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.