Literary Devices
potential power play
He's as sick as a dog.
Simile
Snow
Lovely, white
Falling, dancing, drifting
Covering everything it touches
Blanket
Cinquain
Only became famous after her death
Emily Dickinson
using the 5 senses in your writing
the fly buzzed around the house
onomatopoeia
Time after time.
Repetition
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Haiku
In 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943, he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Robert Frost
A poem with 14 lines usually about love
Sonnet
Grandpa passed away last week
Euphemism
He's buried in a sea of paperwork.
Metaphor
Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you—banded one?
Free Verse
Bennett Cerf bet him he couldn’t write a book using 50 or fewer words. The result is 1960’s “Green Eggs and Ham.”
Dr. Seuss
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Anaphora
There was a deafening silence.
Oxymoron
A wedding ring
Symbol
Grandma is one special angel, a
Really gentle, beautiful soul.
Angel of God, so pure and whole.
Never leave me, stay close by.
Dance with Grandpa up in the sky.
Miss you today, miss you tomorrow.
Always and forever, I'll feel such sorrow.
Acrostic
A famous Playwright and Poet
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to ...
A summer day
The light of the fire is a sight.
Assonance
Lightning danced across the sky
Personification
Brothers and men that shall after us be,
Let not your hearts be hard to us:
For pitying this our misery
Ye shall find God the more piteous.
Ballad
She spoke 6 languages
Maya Angelou
A famous Canadian Free verse poet. Published a poetry anthology entitled "milk and honey"
Rupi Kaur