State any ten figure of speech with an example for each

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1. Simile: She runs as fast as a cheetah.
2. Metaphor: His heart is made of stone.
3. Hyperbole: I've told you a million times not to do that!
4. Personification: The flowers danced in the breeze.
5. Oxymoron: The sound of silence.
6. Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
7. Onomatopoeia: The bees buzzed around the hive.
8. Irony: The fire station burned down.
9. Pun: I used to be a baker, but I couldn't make enough dough.
10. Synecdoche: All hands on deck.