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Poetry Terms You Need to Know
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Simile
A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
Example: The car was as slow as a snail.
Example: The fish’s scales sparkled in the sunlight like rare jewels.
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Predictable Poor as a church mouse.
strong as an ox, cute as a button, smart as a fox.
thin as a toothpick, white as a ghost,
fit as a fiddle, dumb as a post. bald as an eagle,
neat as a pin, proud as a peacock,
ugly as sin. When people are talking you know what they'll say as soon as they start to
use a cliché. © 2000 Bruce Lansky
Find the similes in this poem by Bruce Lansky!
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.
Example: Maria’s new puppy is an eating machine.
Example: The pen is a mighty sword.
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Alliteration
Alliteration is when the same sound is repeated at the beginning of several words of a line of poetry or a sentence.
Example: Bobby blew ten big bubbles.
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is when words are used that sound like the noises they describe.
Examples: Ding dong! Pow! Buzz! Bang!
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Idiom
An idiom is a common expression that makes no sense unless you know its figurative meaning. Example: That test was a piece of cake. Example: She got a taste of her own medicine. Example: That shirt cost me an arm and a leg.
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Personification
Personification gives animals or objects human qualities.
Example: That chocolate cake on the counter called out to Jose, begging him to take a bite.
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Couplet
A couplet is a poem with two rhyming lines. Both have the same rhythm.
Example:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are.
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Limericks
Limericks have five lines, and they are usually funny or silly. The rhyme scheme is AABBA. Example: There was a young lady whose chinresembled the point of a pin;so she had it made sharp,and purchased a harp,and played several tunes with her chin.
-Edward Lear
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Hyperbole
A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.
Example: I’m so hungry that I could eat a bear.
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Concrete Poem
Concrete poems are shape poems spaced to form pictures of what the poem is about.
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Autobiographical PoemAn autobiographical poem is a poem that the author
writes about himself.
Line 1: Your first name
Line 2: Four adjectives that describe you
Line 3: Son/daughter of ...., Brother/sister of ....
Line 4: Lover of (three people or ideas or a combination)
Line 5: Who feels (three sensations or emotions
Line 6: Who find happiness in (three things)
Line 7: Who needs (three things)
Line 8: Who gives (three things)
Line 9: Who fears (three things)
Line 10: Who would like to see (three things)
Line 11: Who enjoys (three things)
Line 12: Who likes to wear (three things)
Line 13: Add something you want to say
Line 14: Your last name only
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Haiku
A haiku is a short poem invented in Japan. It often describes nature with very simple observations about the world around us. A haiku consists of three unrhymed lines of 5-7-5 syllables.
So many breezes
Wander through my summer room:
But never enough
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Rhyme
Rhyme is a technique that creates rhythm using words with the same end sound.
Example: cat, hat, bat, rat, sat, mat, gnat
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Diamonte Poem
Poem written about two opposite things in a diamond shape. Line 1—one noun (subject #1)
Line 2—two adjectives(describing subject #1)
Line 3—three participles (ending in –ing, telling about subject #1)
Line 4—four nouns (first two related to subject #1, second two related to subject #2)
Line 5—three participles (about subject #2)
Line 6—two adjectives (describing subject #2)
Line 7—one noun (subject #2)
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Example of Diamonte Poem
Cat
clever, cuddly
crouching, pouncing, purring
meow, feline, canine, bark
running, sniffing, yelping
lovable, smart
Dog
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Acrostic Poem
An acrostic poem uses each letter of a word to begin each line.
Elizabeth Jane Smith
Loves animals
Is a great student
Zoos are a favorite place to visit
Always tries to have a smile
Believes in being a good friend
Eats pizza and fries
Thinks that I want to be a doctor
Has a great family
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Imagery
The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.
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Sensory details
Sensory details appeal to the readers’ five senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
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“Dreams” by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.