THE QUESTAD POEM
To review all the fun you've had with poetic writing devices, you are going to put them together in one grand poem.
Write as many as you want. Submit them all, but star your favorite.
If you have forgotten what any of the terms mean, click on them in the first column on our web site.

Title = topic of poem

CARS
Line 1 = personification They seem to sing when you rev up the engine
Line 2 = hyperbole The sound is sweeter than honey,
Line 3 = Alliteration purring proudly like a pack of panthers
Line 4 = Onomatopoeia VROOM!
Line 5 = Metaphor It is a shiny dream in the eyes of a child,
Line 6 = Simile speeding like the space shuttle,
Line 7 = Imagery: A minimum of 3 sensory adjectives representing a minimum of 3 different senses (sight, sound, touch, taste and smell) gleaming with smooth, silvery metallic paint along a black road of fragrant tar.
 

by Eric Harker, 2000

 Requirement Example Your work
Topic  Romeo's Fatal Decision  
Personification: made into a person  Bravery exalted herself with dignity and pride  
Hyperbolic:
exaggeration phrase		  more courageous than the fiercest lion  
Alliterative phrase:  avenging assiduous advances by angry alligators  
Onomatopoeia  Bang!  
Metaphor The young boy Romeo, a bright promising romantic star in the sky,  
Simile reacted like a banshee in angry heat  
Imagery

after seeing his loyal friend coughing out ruby-red soft blood onto the hot gritty sand

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 B. A. Questad

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