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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 Balladeer's The Dummy and you'll see how he uses the dummy, and the whole poem, to represent his point - and he does it so well.

Personification - Is giving the attributes of life to an inanimate entity. Snow in Summer, a member from long past, 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..!!