Poetry term examples
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PrincessBananaHammick on February 6, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Symbols | Olive branch- stands for peace |
| Imagery | The super tall branch stood in the middle of the road |
| Metaphor | The moon was a golden coin in the sky |
| Simile | The icy cold water hit my tongue like the ocean waves hit the shore |
| Personification | The sun smiled down at us from the sky |
| Alliteration | My mommy mopped my mother's mess |
| Onomatopoeia | Zoom, buzz,hiss |
| Repetition | I love ice cream It melts in my mouth I love ice cream It tastes the best in the south |
| Assonance | The owl took my towel |
| Rhyme | black rack |
| Approximate | hat smack |
| Couplet | My dog is good My dog is hood |
| End | ice cream is cold it will never mold |
| Exact | water slaughter |
| Internal | ths cat in the hat strikes back |
| Lines | I'm a poet And I didn't even know it |
| Stanzas | I love to write day and night i would cry and sigh for eveyday I could not write writing feels good even in the hood and it's always understood when it rhymes and it should |
| Free Verse | My mother stands tall proud like a lion like a tree that hovers over me |
| Lyric | the crowd jumps up as i make a three the my team comes over to cover me |
| Narrative | there once was a man name billy who often looked silly and one day fell down the stairs and also tripped over some chairs he banged his head and cut his leg and layed in bed while he sat and begged |
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