Unseen poetry

• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words to create effect.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words to create effect.
• Onomatopoeia are words that sound like the item being described.
• Imagery is the creation of likeness through order and word choice.
• Blue green like a crayon is the glistening, warm water.
• The brownish sand is warm between my welcoming toes.
• Simile is a comparison of two items, made explicit by using as or like.
• As black as midnight with eyes like pieces of dark chocolate
• Metaphor is an implicit comparison between two items that are not normally connected.
• Raining cats and dogs
• Personification is using human characteristics to describe abstract concepts and natural phenomena.
• Lightning danced across the sky
• Hyperbole is an obvious exaggeration used for effect.
• In a house the size of a postage stamp lived a man the size of a barge
• Rhetorical question is a question to which an answer is not expected.
• Rhyme is when words match in sound.
• Once I dive into these pages I may not come up for ages
• Rhythm is the beat represented by stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Hickory dickory dock
• The mouse ran up the clock
• Repetition is repeating words and phrases for effect.
• Symbolism is when symbols are used to represent feelings or objects.
• Ah sunflower weary of time who counts the steps of the sun