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.