an expression that means something different than what the words actually say

Its raining cats and dogs!

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when several words begin with the same consonant sound

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out.
-Shel Silverstein
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comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other

My feet were two woolen fish in those outrageous socks.
-Pablo Neruda
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words that imitate a sound

Oh CRASH! my BASH! its BANG! the ZANG! Fourth WHOOSH! of BAROOOM! July WHEW! -Shel Silverstein
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comparing two unlike objects using like or as

Love that boy, like a rabbit loves to run.
-Walter Dean Myers
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giving human qualities or characteristics to a nonliving thing

And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils
-William Wordsworth
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an extreme exaggeration used for effect

Id rather take baths with a maneating shark.
-Jack Prelutsky
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words that help a reader visualize and imagine with the senses.
The gray grass is scarce dappled with the snow
-Robert Frost
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a phrase using two words of opposite meaning together

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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a repeating pattern of sounds and syllables

Thum, thum, thum and thumming I feel the ocean rhythm coming
-Walter Dean Myers
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using the same word or phrase for emphasis

They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, the moon, They danced by the light of the moon
-Edward Lear
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two or more words that end with the same sound

Tyger, Tyger! Burning bright In the forests of the night
-William Blake
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poetry that doesnt rhyme or have a regular rhythm

I caught a tremendous fish And held him beside the boat
-Elizabeth Bishop
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Descriptions and examples of the literary element

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