POETRY

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POETRY

• A medium for creative expression

By Margaret Dixon
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IMAGES
The bear in the back room is wormy Its meat is
all stinky and squirmy, So Im reading a
book About how to cook And another about
taxidermy.
Appeal to the five senses
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
SIMILE
METAPHOR
PERSONIFICATION
ONOMATOPOEIA
HELP CREATE IMAGES
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It seems to meYouve lived your lifeLike a
candle in the wind
Elton John
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SIMILE
Sometimes when the moon Looks like a slice of
orange impaled on a tree fork. From
Insomniac by Patricia Y. Ikeda
a comparison using the words like or as
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The fog comes on little cat feet It sits
looking over harbor and city on silent
haunches and then moves on. Carl Sandburg
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METAPHOR

• My brother is
• A PIG!

a direct comparison does NOT use like or as
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Life has loveliness to sell- All beautiful
and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a
cliff, Climbing fire that sways and sings, And
childrens faces looking up Holding wonder like a
cup. Sara Teasdale
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PERSONIFICATION
And Spring herself, when she woke at
dawn, Would scarcely know that we were
gone Sara Teasdale
giving human qualities to inhuman things or
objects
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each
purple curtain Thrilled me-filled me with
fantastic terrors never felt before from The
Raven
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Black is the clear glass now that he
glides, Crisp is the whisper of long, lean
strides from The Skater of Ghost
Lake by William Rose Benet
when a word sounds like what it means