Poetry Prep

Direct Comparison

Intentional Exaggeration

Comparison Using Like or As

Using human qualities to describe nonhuman things.

A word that imitates sound.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

[The daffodils] were beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on a high o'er vales and hills.

Silver bells! What a world of merriment their meoldy foretells1 How they tinkle.

Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.

Importance.

Challenge.

Goodness.

Surpise.

Change.

Hyperbole

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Idiom