Famous Figurative Language

Metaphor

"All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree." -Albert Einstein

Personification

"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me." -Emily Dickinson

Simile

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." -Muhammad Ali

Onomatopoeia

"How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy air of night" -Edgar Allan Poe

Pun

"Mine is a long and sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly, but why do you call it sad?" -Lewis Caroll

Allusion

"No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well." -Margaret Thatcher

Alliteration

"We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Oxymoron

"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." -Indira Gandhi