1. Elements of Poetry

2. Alliteration She sells sea shells down by the sea shore
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore

3. Hear the mellow wedding bells
Assonance
Repeated vowel sounds
Hear the mellow wedding bells

4. hyperbole The dog she saw was as big as a bus!
When the truth is exaggerated
The dog she saw was as big as a bus!

5. personification The trees seemed to warn us with their bare arms.
Giving human qualities or an animal, object, or idea.
The trees seemed to warn us with their bare arms.

6. symbol
Something that stands for something else
Flag = freedom

7. Raining cats and dogs Idiom
A figure of speech that cannot be taken literally
Raining cats and dogs

8. stanza As the icy droplets dance through the air
A group of two or mare lines that form a unit in a poem.
As the icy droplets dance through the air
I shiver with cold and delight

9. metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things
Life is a roller coaster

10. simile He is as strong as an ox
Compares two unlike things using the words like or as
He is as strong as an ox

11. Onomatopoeia Buzz, smack, gargle
Words whose sounds echo their meanings
Buzz, smack, gargle

12. Deafening silence Jumbo shrimp oxymoron
Joining two contradictions or opposites
Deafening silence
Jumbo shrimp

13. repetition Cannon to the right of them Cannon to the left of them
When a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis
Cannon to the right of them
Cannon to the left of them
Cannon in front of them

14. I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps.
couplet
Two rhyming lines
I have the measles and the mumps,
a gash, a rash and purple bumps.

15. Voice
Expresses the reader’s personality

16. tone
Expresses the writers attitude towards his or her subject

17. A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
imagery
Words and phrases that help a reader visualize
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

18. The sword gleamed red like blood.
Sensory detail
Words and phrases that add to the sensory experience of the reader
The sword gleamed red like blood.

19. rhyme Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Twas brillig and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogroves
And the mome raths outgrabe