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Elements of Elements of PoetryPoetry
Elements of Elements of PoetryPoetry
Definition of Poetry• Literature in verse form (a
controlled arrangement of lines and stanzas)
• Uses language to express layers of meaning
Literary Elements•Figurative language
–Language that is used imaginatively rather than literally to express ideas/feelings
Examples:• Simile: uses “like” or “as” to
compare 2 essentially unlike things
• Ex./She runs like the wind.
Metaphor• Compares 2 like things
describing one as if it were the other
• ex./ My brother’s room is a pigpen.
Personification• A figure of speech in which human
qualities are given to a non-human subject
• Ex./ The feather tickled my face.
Imagery• Descriptive language that
creates vivid impressions.
• Uses sensory language; appeals to the 5 senses
Musical qualities• Poets often use sound devices
to achieve a musical quality
• They do this by the language that they use
Rhythm• Pattern created by stressed and
unstressed syllables
• Ordered pattern of rhythm is called meter
Rhyme• Repetition of identical sounds
in the last syllables of words
• Pattern of rhyme at end of lines in a poem is called rhyme scheme
Alliteration• Initial rhyme
• Repetition of first consonant
• Ex./the light lemon lollipop
Assonance• Vowel rhyme
• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
• Ex./ date and fade
Consonance• Repetition of consonants
within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ
• Ex./ milk and walk