Some common figures of speech are alliteration, anaphora, antimetabole, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, hyperbole, irony, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paradox, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.
A figure of speech is a word or phrase used in a non-literal sense. Things like similes, metaphors, personification, etc. Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, obviously you can't eat a horse, it's just an expression.
