Poem Enhancers
	1. Metaphor - comparing two unlike objects using a direct comparison; Ex. She is a mack truck 2. Simile - comparing two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as"; Ex. She is as stubborn as a mule 3. Personification - giving an object human qualities Ex. The sun's rays bled across the water. 4. Onomatopoeia - using words that sound like the sound the object makes; Ex. whack, thump thump, tick tock 5. Irony - when the opposite of what is expected occurs 6. Foreshadowing - a hint of what is to come 7. Meter - rhythm 8. Rhyme - having the same ending sound; Ex. time, dime, climb 9. Alliteration - having the same beginning consonant sound; Ex. slippery slope of sand 10. Assonance - having the same vowel sound; mouthy hound 11. Imagery - details that create a picture in one's head
		These tools allow you to make your poems more powerful to the reader and to yourself the writer.  They create images that have impact and are long remembered.
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