Poetry Terms by Examples

"The cat curled up in the chair in a period of yellow fur" shows

• personification

• simle

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

"Tom is like an erupting volcano when he is angry" shows

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

"The school bus vacuumed up children at each stop " is an example of

• personification

• simile

• metaphor (implied)

• onomatopoeia

There once was a big brown cat

That like to eat a lot of mice

He got all round and fat

Because they tasted so nice.

This quatrain shows what rhyme scheme?

• couplets

• free verse

• abab

• alternating lines

"Baker's Reply to the Needle Salesman"

I need not your needles

They're needless to me,

for kneading of needles

were needless, you see;

But did my neat trousers

but need to be kneed

I then should have need

Of your needles indeed.

This poem shows all of these:

• pun

• assonance

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

"Lightning danced across the sky."

"The flowers begged for attention."

"The vines wove their fingers together to form a braided ladder."

"The sun played hide and seek with the clouds."

All these show use of

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idioms

• near rhyme

"The engineer held the steering wheel so that the car wouldn't veer into the wrong lane"

"I must confess that in my quest I feel restless."

Both these examples are using

• no figurative language at all

• assonance

• near rhyme for rhyme scheme

• allusion

"All’s well that ends well. "

"He stood on the road and cried."

"At the dock, I dropped the locket in the thick mud. "

These are all examples of

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• consonance

• rhythm

Crack an Egg

Crack an egg.

Stir the butter.

Break the yolk.

Make it flutter.

Stoke the heat.

Hear it sizzle.

Shake the salt,

just a drizzle.

Flip it over,

just like that.

Press it down.

Squeeze it flat.

Pop the toast.

Spread jam thin.

Say the word.

Breakfast's in .

A Little Bit of Nonsense

By: Denise Rodgers

What does this poem use?

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• pun

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,

This poem uses

• idioms

• metaphors

• personification

• gustatory imagery

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