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. “And then there's her family to think of. Her mother, her sister, and all those ... cousins.” By the way he lingers on the word “cousins,” I can tell he knows that Gale and I don't share a family tree. 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. Did I do it? Was it enough? Was giving everything over to you, keeping up the game, promising to marry Peeta enough? In answer, he gives an almost imperceptible shake of his head 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