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| poem that celebrates something or someone |
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| 5-7-5 syllable structure that forces the writer to be very specific; contains strong feelings about nature |
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| names the subject with first letters of every line |
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| no rules ,expression of inner voice;poets use their instincts |
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| short, light-hearted, humorous poem, 5 lines with A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme |
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| tells a story;has plot ,characters and sometimes dialogue |
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| poems are shaped to look like their subjects creating a visual image: playful |
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| highly muiscal verse that expresses feelings and thought |
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| is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words, such as pool, rule, and fool |
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| is the beat created by the pattern of stressed andunstressed syllables:The cat sat on the mat. |
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| is the use of any element of languege - a sound,word,phrase,clause,or sentence-more than one. |
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the use of words that imitate sounds
crash, bang, hiss, splat |
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the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words;
lovely lonely lights |
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describes one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things
the snow was a white blanket over the town. |
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uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things and show similarities between the two
she is as slow as a turtle. |
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gives human qualities to something that is nonhuman
The ocean crashed angrily during the storm. |
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