| A | B |
| Narrative Poem | A verse that tells a story |
| Personification | Gives qualities of life to non-living things |
| Hyperbole | Poet uses exaggeration |
| Rhyme | Two or more words sound alike |
| She eats like a pig | Simile |
| Juliet is the sun | Metaphor |
| I see flowers dancing | Personification |
| Lyric Poem | A highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of a speaker |
| I'm so hungry I could eat a horse | Hyperbole |
| Pop, snap, thud | Onomatopoeia |
| Night light | Rhyme |
| She sells sea shells by the sea shore | Alliteration |
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer (ex: click, snap, and pow) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Rhythm | The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of verse or prose |