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Simile - A comparison using as or like. Check out Ron's Tormented Love - Triumphant Hate and see if you can find one. - Yep - "like lemmings led to our own fall" (ROFTL - I had to look it up too!! - I love it when that happens).

Metaphor - A comparison that doesn't use "as" or "like", but rather uses one idea to represent another. Munda's Walk With Me is a good example of a metaphor. Life is not a path, but this poem makes it one - without using "as" or "like".

Extended Metaphor - This involves the entire poem in a metaphorical comparison. Read XAngel's On Closing Old Doors and you'll see how she uses the old doors in the poem to represent incomplete issues in her life, and she does it nicely.

Personification - Is giving the attributes of life to an inanimate entity. Snow in Summer does a very nice job in her untitled poem. She's got "pumpkins perching on the porch" and "plumply slumbering" (and more). This is also Alliteration, btw - that's repeated syllable sounds for a great effect.

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Writing a simile is as easy as pie..
but
Writing a metaphor is a piece of cake..!!

Mizzzzzzz Nanny can I watch from the side.....I don't know if I can make it ...oh my....did I said that I would try one...oh my.....poor lil me  

But will do my best, even if it takes a year to post mine....:lol:

Charisma

~*Theresia~*  

Im in defenitely, as soon as I've figured out what your talking about  

Will be back to read properly, don't have time now

Sweet Nanniness, applepie oké?

Tried but can't open the links though

Titia

[This message has been edited by Titia Geertman (edited 12-11-2001).]