UUsing the 5 senses in writing to create a picture or invoke a specific feeling

 Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet?  -Langston Hughes

AA comparison between two things that do not seem alike, but in some way are alike.

 But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun.  -Romeo & Juliet

 Same as a metaphor only one part of the comparison is not stated directly.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood --Robert Frost

 A comparison between two seemingly unlike things using LIKE or AS

……when you’re born into a family built like an avalanche --Ani Difranco

GGiving human characteristics to something non-human

PPerhaps the night dreams that it is no longer night; the fish, that they are boats;… --Ana Maria Iza

 When a word imitates a sound

OOver the cobbles he clattered and clashed. --Alfred Noyes

 The repetition of consonant sounds.

 While all the world wondered  -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 A group of lines  (like a paragraph in prose)

 I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference  -Robert Frost

 When two words with identical or similar sounds end the line

 Theirs not to make reply,  Theirs not to reason why,  Theirs but to do and die;  -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 When rhymes occur within lines

IIII want to sail on a swallow’s tail and peep through the sky’s blue glass. I want to see if the dreams in me shall perish or come to pass. ----Georgia Douglas Johnson

 A Poem that tells a story

 “Casey at Bat”  “The Little Boy”

 The “VOICE” or “Narrator” of the poem- not the author