1. ~A medium for creative expression~
POETRY
~A medium for creative expression~
By Margaret Dixon

2. Appeal to the five senses
~IMAGES~
The bear in the back room is wormy
Its meat is all stinky and squirmy,
So I’m reading a book
About how to cook
And another about taxidermy.
Appeal to the five senses

3. ~FIGURES OF SPEECH~ SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION ONOMATOPOEIA
HELP CREATE IMAGES

4. “It seems to me You’ve lived your life Like a candle in the wind”
Elton John

5. ~a comparison using the words “like” or “as”
~SIMILE~
“Sometimes when the moon
Looks like a slice of orange impaled on a tree fork….”
From “Insomniac”
by Patricia Y. Ikeda
~a comparison using the words “like” or “as”

6. The fog comes
on little cat feet
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg

7. ~a direct comparison; does NOT use “like” or “as”
~METAPHOR~
My brother is
A PIG!
~a direct comparison; does NOT use “like” or “as”

8. “Life has loveliness to sell- All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Climbing fire that sways and sings,
And children’s faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

9. ~giving human qualities to inhuman things or objects
~PERSONIFICATION~
“…And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know
that we were gone”
Sara Teasdale
~giving human qualities to inhuman things or objects

10. “…And the silken sad uncertain rustling
of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors
never felt before…”
from “The Raven”

11. ~when a word sounds like what it means
~ONOMATOPOEIA~
“Black is the clear glass now that he glides,
Crisp is the whisper of long, lean strides…”
from “The Skater of Ghost Lake”
by William Rose Benet
~when a word sounds like what it means