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| a group of lines that form the basic organizational structure of a poem or verse |
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| a part of a poem that forms a row of words |
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| the repetition of identical consonant sounds |
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| words that imitate sounds |
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| the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza or poem |
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| giving human characteristics or traits to non-human things, forms or objects |
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| comparing two or more unlike things that have something in common without using "like" or "as" |
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| comparing two or more things using "like" or "as" |
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| poems that conform to a definite, predetermined pattern of line and stanza |
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| poems that do not follow any preterdetermined pattern and may or may not rhyme or have rhythm |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds |
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| the repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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evening breeze
water laps the legs
of the blue heron
-Yosa Buson |
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| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
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Snow drifts by my glass
Spiders of ice form a branch |
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| example of free form poem |
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| On top of a mountain there sits a green bird |
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Nimrod Nero,
superhero,
never saves the day.
He doesn't fly.
He's known to cry.
He always runs away
-Kenn Nesbit |
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"My computer ate my homework"
-Kenn Nesbit |
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| example of personification |
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"crunch, munch, caterpillars lunch"
- Denise Fleming |
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| an example of onomatopoeia |
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