← poetry styles Export Options Alphabetize Word-Def Delimiter Tab Comma Custom Def-Word Delimiter New Line Semicolon Custom Data Copy and paste the text below. It is read-only. Select All cinquain this style of poetry is five lines long with a certain number of syllables or wordsin each line haiku this type of japanese poetry about nature. it is only three lines long diamante this type of poem usually written to form the shape of a diamond. similie compares two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as" metaphor compares two unlike things without using the word" like" or "as". personification Gives the qualities of a person to a animal, an object, or an idea. Onomatopoeia the use of word a that sound very much like the sound they name. Idiom an expreesion that has the meaningof it individual word. alliteration the repetition of initial consonant sounds. limerick a poem that has 5 lines and the 1st, 2nd, and 5th rhyme but the other 2 do not. hyberbole an exaggeration