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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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