This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

An English article on how to use figurative language when writing poetry. ... For example: The grass was as ... Assonance is when a vowel sound is repeated in words close together.

Mary Oliver wrote a handbook on how to craft poems. ... Oliver defines several sound devices and gives examples: Alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia, to name a few.

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For example: The grass was as green as an emerald. Metaphors are words or phrases used to describe something as if it actually is something else. For example: He was a ray of sunshine.