The examples given are from personal mask poems composed by Ms. Roderick's ceramics students at Sabino High School (2002-2003).
| Term | Meaning | Example |
| alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sounds | terrible truths and lullaby lies |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sound | mystery disguised within |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowel sounds | gloomy woman |
| imagery | language that evokes sensory images
| drip of ruby teardrops (aural/sound) |
internal rhyme | rhyming that occurs within the line (rather than at the end) | piece of me emerges |
| metaphor | comparison of unlike things (made without using like or as) | I am the "Lone Star" |
Personal Mask by Matt Richards
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents | Boo! Who? |
| personification | giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or objects | tears of amber fall from my soul |
| rhyme | a pattern of words that contains similar sounds at the end of the line | life for me is wild and free |
| rhyme scheme | a repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of the line | lusty eyes (A) passionate cries (A) rich blood, (B) bitter sweat (C) she/he loves (D) and dies (A) |
Personal Mask By Sandra Hallquist
| simile | a comparison using like or as | notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky |
| stanza | a group of poetic lines (also called a verse) | Like glistening sun and moon like day and gloomy night like pure earth and gentle clouds transformation - life and death |
| symbol | an object or action that means more than its literal meaning | always open like a rosebud about to bloom (a young girl) |
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