Short story definitions and examples

1.Simile-a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared
(ex. "but you know that yesterday they was all over the place like maggots for dinner at Jeffrey Dahmer's." )
2.Metaphor-something that makes a comparison between two unlike things.
(ex. "Finally after hours at the knife-edge of death, he fled half-stripped, bleeding and handcuffed into the street, where he flagged down a passing police car. ")
(ex."gold-rush-media-frenzy")
3.Personification-a metaphor that is not real but is talked about like it is
4.Allusion-reference to a statement such as a place, event, etc.
5.Hyperbole-an exaggeration
6.Irony-contrast between what is said and what is meant