Imagery
gathering swallows twitter in the skies
Sound Imagery
SLAM! The door blew shut.
Onomatopoeia
3 lines of 5-7-5 syllables
Haiku
The ocean was in a rage!
Personification
The walk home took a million years, but lasted but a second.
Hyperbole + Juxtaposition (or oxymoron)
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils...
Visual image
His heart howled hungrily, heatedly, for home.
Alliteration
the "paragraph" in a poem
stanza
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
Hyperbole
The car complained with a "hiss" as the key roughly turned its ignition.
Personification + onomatopoeia
They silently inhale
the clover-scented gale,
Olfactory image
His tender heir might bear his memory...
Assonance
a section of a poem made up of two lines
couplet
"I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house..."
Metaphor
I wrote so much my hand fell off, like a piece of meat hacked by a butcher's knife.
Hyperbole + Simile.
Crushed leaves and grass,
tasty tangy summer.
Gustatory image
Pitter patter walked the bitter hatter.
Consonance
a poem of 14 lines, often with abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky
Simile
She drank the pale drug of silence
Metaphor + Synaesthesia
... the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl,
Kinesthetic imagery
The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
Rhyming Couplet
style with no rhyme or meter
free verse
It was the best of times, It was the worst of times...
Juxtaposition OR oxymoron
Ting, ting! The bell's song lured dinner guests to the tables.
Onomatopoeia + personification + auditory imagery