by Mr Pulvirenti

Simile/Metaphor

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:32:15 UTC

As cold as ice

As cool as a cucumber

My teacher is a dragon

The Mayor glared with eyes of ice

Alliteration

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:33:10 UTC

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.
So she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter,
and she put it in her batter and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Onomatopeia

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:33:19 UTC

The Bells (by Edgar Allan Poe)

Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!

Personification

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:33:46 UTC

Hey diddle, Diddle,The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Rhyme

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:49:13 UTC

Rythm

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:49:22 UTC

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-09 23:52:46 UTC

Ballads

cpulvirenti — 2013-07-18 02:01:38 UTC

When people hear the word ‘ballad’ today they often think of mushy love songs, but ballads have a much greater history. While most poetry is concerned with evoking emotions and feelings, the ballad is a vehicle for story-telling, and has been with us since medieval times.

The words are set to music to become a song, and follow a simple rhyming pattern and a set meter (or rhythm).

Each verse has four lines, and the poem can have as many verses as necessary to tell the story.

cpulvirenti — 2016-10-10 02:27:46 UTC