Alliteration
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
Simile
As brave as a lion
Metaphor
You're a peach
Personification
Lightning danced across the sky
Simile
Crazy like a fox
Alliteration
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Personification
The wind howled in the night
Personification
My alarm clock yells to me to get out of bed every morning
Personification
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in it's ignition
Hyperbole
I'm so hungry, I could eat an elephant
Onomatopoeia
Cuckoo
Personification
Mrs. Olsen heard the last piece of pie calling her
Onomatopoeia
Ca- ching
Onomatopoeia
beep
Onomatopoeia
Hiss
Monometer
1 foot
Dimeter
2 feet
Trimeter
3 feet
Tetrameter
4 feet
Pentameter
5 feet
Hexameter
6 feet
Quatrain
has four lines in each stanza; a stanza is a grouping of lines, the last words in lines
Free-verse
do not follow the rules, have no rhyme or rhythm, but still an artistic expression
Haiku
type of poem from Japan, usually about nature, has three lines, the first line: has 5 syllables, second line: has 7 syllables, and last line: has 5 syllables
Rhyming Poem
the same sounds of two or more words repeat; often at the ends of lines
Acrostic
each line describes the topic word, and each letter of the word starts a newline
Cinquain
line 1: subject
line 2: adjectives with a comma between them
line 3: 3 verbs that tell what the subject does
line 4: write a thought about about the subject
line 5: repeat the subject or write a synonym for it
Diamante
line 1: write a noun
line 2: write 2 adjectives
line 3: write a participles
line 4: write 4 nouns that relate to the subject
line 5: write 3 participles that show a change or develop the subject
line 6: write 2 adjectives that carry the idea of change or
Meter
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Feet
individual units of rhythm made of patterns of syllables
Poetry
a way of putting feelings into special combinations of words
Rhythm
a natural effect within poetry. The meter of a sentence and feet that are used in a sentence gives a poem its effect
Rhyme
the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhymed words share all sounds following the word's last stressed syllable
End rhyme
the most common type, is the rhyming of the final syllable of a line
Eye rhyme
rhymes only when spelled, not when pronounced
Simile
a figure of speech that makes a comparison showing similarities between two different things. It is a direct comparison
Metaphor
a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common c
Personification
a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an animal is given human characteristics