People play poker in a place called Pop's
While tigers go tramping on tree tops
Kids practice canning, with Kathy and Claire
As Harold and Helen have fun with their hair
[Alliteration]
Don ate his salad like a vacuum cleaner.
His arms were weak and felt like noodles.
The thunder was as loud as fireworks.
[Similes]
The smoke was cotton balls billowing from the
chimney.
You are my hero.
The sun was a furnace.
Poetry by Alan Loren
[Metaphors]
A fragile winter butterfly
Flutters from the sky
So soft and yet her heart
Is cold and made of ice
But if I warm it
She will melt and die
Poem by Elaine George
[Personification and Metaphor]
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington
Gardens...”
Quote from “The Garden”
by Ezra Pound
[Simile]
Hark, hark!
Bow-wow.
The watch-dogs bark!
Bow-wow.
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting Chanticleer
Cry, 'cock-a-diddle-dow!
From The Tempest, Act I, Scene II,
by William Shakespeare
[Onomatopoeia]
Cindy is a fish when she swims.
[Metaphor]
Autumn brushes her hair slowly
Letting the glorious colors
flow gently to the earth below.
From “Autumn’s Season” by Timothy I. Brumley
[Personification]
“My love is like a red, red rose, that is newly
sprung in June. Quote from “A Red, Red Rose”
by Robert Burns
[Simile]
Becky's beagle barked and bayed, becoming
bothersome for Billy.
[Alliteration]
Our house is an old friend of ours. Although
he creaks and groans with every gust of wind,
he never fails to protect us from the elements.
He wraps his arms of bricks and
mortar around us and keeps us safe.
He’s always been a good friend to us and we
would never leave him.
Anonymous
[Personification and Metaphor]
He is as cunning as a fox.
[Simile]
Crack! Crack!
The fire crackles under the stars.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The water sizzles above the fire.
Crunch! Crunch!
The campers crunching on potato chips.
Click! Clack! Click! Clack!
From “Camping” by Natasha Niemi
[Onomatopoeia and Alliteration]
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.
From “Flint” by Christina Rossetti
[Simile]
Willow
My slender boughs are bowed
by the great weight of my grief,
and these are not leaves
cascading to soil, but tears of teal.
From a poem by Timothy I. Brumley
[Personification]
A Book Is
A book is
an open flower
scented pages, fragrant hours
From a poem by Kathy Leeuwenburg.
[Metaphor]
Tom is like a computer when he does his math.
[Simile]
The Game
Clap! Clap!
Stomp! Stomp!
Swish! Swish!
This is the way we get through
Our games.
The crowd shouts,
”Yahoo!”
From a poem by Natasha Niemi
[Onomatopoeia]
"Gee, Great Aunt Nellie, why aren't any golden
goldfinches going to the goodies?" "Oh," said
Aunt Nellie, "They thrive on thistle and I
thoroughly thought that I threw the thistle out
there".
From “Thank you for the Thistle”
by Dorie Thurston
[Alliteration]
The cat’s fur was a blanket of warmth.
[Metaphor]
Mary was as sweet as pie.
[Simile]
Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
From “Mom & Dad Are Home”
by Natasha Niemi
[Onomatopoeia]
John slept like a log.
[Simile]
The Football Game
Blitz and blocking, bump –and-run
Drive and drop kick, the other team’s done
End zone, end line, ebb and flow
Snap, sack, scrambling, I love it so
Football is fun and fabulous too
Let’s go to the stadium, just me and you
From a poem by Alan Loren
[Alliteration and Onomatopoeia]
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
From "Fox in Sock" by Dr. Seuss
[Alliteration]