Elements of Poetry Review

1. Elements of PoetryReview

2. Sensory Language Words that create or trigger sensory images in the reader’s mind.

3. sight, sound, smell, taste, & touch

4. Figurative Language Words not meant to be interpreted literally

5. Metaphor Personification Simile

6. Metaphor A comparison between two things without using “like” or “as”

7. “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” William Shakespeare

8. Juliet compared to the sun

9. Personification Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

10. Who Has Seen the Wind?Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you.But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I.But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.Christina G. Rossetti

11. Simile A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”

12. Your eyes are like the brightest stars. Your cheeks are aglow like the face of mars.

13. Sound Device add meaning and feeling to writing through the use of sound

14. Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia Repetition Rhyme Meter

15. Alliteration The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in several words.

16. “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” The repetitive “p” sound creates alliteration.

17. Repetition Restating a word or phrase multiple times.

18. Who Has Seen the Wind?Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you.But when the leaves hang trembling,The wind is passing through.Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I.But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.Christina G. Rossetti

19. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds in a word.

20. Golow and slow below the ridge

22. Consonance The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of a word

23. “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” Dylan Thomas

25. Onomatopoeia Words that imitate sound. (Sound like what they mean)

26. The big dog barked with a bow, wow, wow. The cat took off with a meow, meow, meow.

27. Rhyme The repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds in words.

28. End Rhyme Rhymes at the end of a line of poetry Ex. So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Internal Rhyme Words within the same line rhyme Ex. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary

29. Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour, Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost

30. Meter A way of placing emphasis on words & syllables that create a repetitive rhythm.

31. The way we say a poem is like this.

32. Hyperbole An overstatement or exaggeration meant to place emphasis

33. She said, “If I don’t give this kiss I’ll die.”