More examples of some Figurative languages 1. Simile -He is sleeping like a log. -Marie eats like a bird. 2. metaphor -All the world’s stage. -She was peaches and cream. 3. Personification -The wind whistled. -Her heart cried out. 4. Synecdoche -All hands on deck! -A sail1 a sail! 5. metonymy -Pay tribute to the crown. -The White House has decided. 6. Hyperbole -Sweat to death -rivers of blood 7. Apostrophe -death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful.