POWER TOOLS FOR WRITING My Notes: Definitions Annotations of Examples

Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud. A diamond is a brilliant stone, To catch the world's desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds a fire. by Christina Rossetti Simile: Compares. Uses like or as. Blue Bracelet Your bracelet is shiny, like water on ice. It clicks and it tinkles. It's shiny-blue nice. by Denise Rodgers

THE fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. by Carl Sandburg Metaphor: Compares. Does NOT use like or as The Ferrari was a personal jet, set to take off before dawn. His teeth were hardened blue cheese nuggets, speckled with green and black. When he ate, he was a crocodile, opening wide and snapping his jaws suddenly for the kill.

Stanza: A separate section in a poem. My dad gave me one dollar bill ‘Cause I’m his smartest son, And I swapped it for two shiny quarters ‘Cause two is more than one! And then I took the quarters And traded them to Lou For three dimes—I guess he don’t know That three is more than two! Just then, along came old blind Bates And just ‘cause he can’t see He gave me four nickels for my three dimes, And four is more than three! And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs Down at the seed-feed store, And the fool gave me five pennies for them, And five is more than four! And then I went and showed my dad, And he got red in the cheeks And closed his eyes and shook his head— Too proud of me to speak! by Shel Silverstein

The wind is now a roaring, smashing monster of destruction, raking all man's work from the valleys, from the vales, and sends them spinning… Personification: Giving human qualities to something that is not human.

Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. Alliteration: Repeating sounds close together, or in a pattern.

Boom! Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher. Rip! Went the plastic bag. Munch! Munch! Go the students. Slurp!!! Went the straws. Whisper Is what half the kids in the room are doing. Crunch! Crunch! go the candy bars. Onomatopoeia: Words that are spelled like they sound.