8 th grade Poetry Project Names have been changed so that they are not embarassed

Alliteration Definition: Example: Three gray geese in as green field grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grazing.

Allusion Definition:Example: Christy didn’t like to spend money. She was no scrooge, but she seldom purchased any thing except the bare necessities.

Assonance Definition:Example: I lie down by the side of my bride.

Consonance Definition:Example: Buckets of big blue berries

Hyperbole Definition:Example: My dog is so ugly, he only has two friends.

Imagery Definition:Example: The moon shined bright on the road’s slippery gaze.

Metaphor Definition:Example: The assignment was a breeze.

Onomatopoeia Definition:Example: Boom, pow, and crack.

Oxymoron Definition:Example: I can resist anything, except temptation.

Personification Definition:Example: Snow speaks to the people its falling above in the glooming sunlight.

Repetition Definition:Example: I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?

Symbolism Definition:Example: I fell as tall as a mountian.

Understatement Definition:Example: Describing atomic explosion as somewhat noise.