1. Elements of Poetry Review

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

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

4. Words not meant to be interpreted literally
Figurative Language
Words not meant to be interpreted literally

5. Metaphor Personification
Simile

6. A comparison between two things without using “like” or “as”
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. Giving human characteristics to
Personification
Giving human characteristics to
non-human things.

10. Who Has Seen the Wind. Who has seen the wind. Neither I nor you
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. A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”
Simile
A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”

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

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

14. Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Rhyme
Meter

15. The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in several words.
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. Restating a word or phrase multiple times.
Repetition
Restating a word or phrase multiple times.

18. Who Has Seen the Wind. Who has seen the wind. Neither I nor you
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. The repetition of vowel sounds in a word.
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a word.

20. Go low and slow
below the ridge

22. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of a word
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. Words that imitate sound. (Sound like what they mean)
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. The repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds in words.
Rhyme
The repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds in words.

28. Rhymes at the end of a line of poetry Words within the same line rhyme
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. An overstatement or exaggeration meant to place emphasis
Hyperbole
An overstatement or exaggeration
meant to place emphasis

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