Poetry Prep

A word that imitates sound.

Direct Comparison

Using human qualities to describe nonhuman things.

Intentional Exaggeration

Comparison Using Like or As

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

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

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

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.

Surpise.

Goodness.

Challenge.

Importance.

Change.

Hyperbole

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Idiom