1. What are the
Slide Show Created By:
Paula Trapani
LRMS Librarian

3. Imagery
The mental
pictures created
by a piece of
writing

4. Imagery example:
The wind was a torrent of
darkness among the gusty
trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon
tossed upon cloudy seas,
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

6. Simile
A phrase that
compares two
things using
“like” or “as”

7. Simile example:
His eyes were hollows of
madness, his hair like
mouldy hay,
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

9. Metaphor
A phrase that
compares two
things without
using “like” or
“as”

10. Metaphor
example
The road was a ribbon of
moonlight over the purple
moor,
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

12. Personification
When human traits
or characteristics
are given to
inanimate objects
or abstract notions

13. Personification
example
I’ll come to thee by
moonlight, though hell
should bar the way.
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

15. Rhyme
Words at the end
of lines of poetry
that sound the
same.

16. Rhyme example
A Student's Prayer
by Anonymous
Now I lay me down to rest.
I pray I pass tomorrow's test.
If I should die before I wake,
that's one less test I'll have to take.

18. Alliteration
The repetition of
the first
consonant sound
in a group of
words

19. Alliteration
Over the cobbles he clattered
and clashed in the dark inn-
yard,
And he tapped with his whip on
the shutters, but all was locked
and barred.
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

21. Assonance
The repetition of
vowel sounds in a
group of words.

22. Assonance
example
“…the rare and radiant
maiden whom the angels
named Lenore…”
From “The Raven”
by Edgar Allen Poe

24. Hyperbole
A figure of
speech involving
exaggeration to
help create a
desired image.

25. Hyperbole
example
Why does a boy who’s fast as
a jet
Take all day—and sometimes
two—
To get to school?
By: John Ciardi (from “Speed
Adjustments”)

27. Repetition
When a word or phrase is
repeated several times
throughout a stanza or
poem.

28. Repetition
example
And the highwayman came
riding—
Riding—riding—
The highway man came riding,
up to the old inn-door.
From “The Highwayman” by
Alfred Noyes

30. Onomatopoeia
Use of a word
that is an actual
imitation of the
sound it is
referring to

31. Onomatopoeia
example
Swoosh, swish
paddling down a creek
splish, splash, whump
a fish jumps on me
By: Lacey
(a student at Langley Meadows school
in Canada)

32. Credits:
Slide Show by:
Paula Trapani-Wiener
LRMS Librarian
Images Created at:
www.imagechef.com