Post on 21-Jan-2016
8th grade Poetry Project
Names have been changed so that they are not embarassed
Alliteration
Definition: Example:• Three gray geese in as green
field grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grazing.
Allusion
Definition: Example:• Christy didn’t like to spend
money . She was no scrooge , but she seldom purchased any thing except the bare necessities.
Assonance
Definition: Example:• I lie down by the side of my
bride.
Consonance
Definition: Example:• Buckets of big blue berries
Hyperbole
Definition: Example:• My dog is so ugly, he only
has two friends.
Imagery
Definition: Example:• The moon shined bright on
the road’s slippery gaze.
Metaphor
Definition: Example:• The assignment was a
breeze.
Onomatopoeia
Definition: Example:• Boom, pow , and crack.
Oxymoron
Definition: Example:• I can resist anything, except
temptation.
Personification
Definition: Example:• Snow speaks to the people
its falling above in the glooming sunlight.
Repetition
Definition: Example:• I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Symbolism
Definition: Example:• I fell as tall as a mountian.
Understatement
Definition: Example:• Describing atomic explosion
as somewhat noise.