Simile 

 

a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” 

It's about a half-mile walk from the square in the center of town, but it seems like another world entirely. 

Verbal Irony 

 

irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. 

 

 

Situational Irony 

 

irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. 

 

 

Personification 

 

the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. 

 

“All my joints complain” 
 
joints cant complain