Elements of Poetry
Words with the same ending sound at the end of lines or stanzas.
Rhyming Words
Simile
He was as mad as a tea kettle blowing steam out of his ears.
Simile
Little Things
by Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
What two things is the poet comparing to time?
drops of water and grains of sand. (The poet is saying that every moment is part of the eternity of time.)
A pattern of stressed syllables that create a beat.
Rhythm
A comparison of two things by saying one thing is another thing.
Metaphor
A blanket of silver sequins spread across the sky.
Metaphor
Fog
BY CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What two things is the author comparing?
fog and cats
Words that create images that appeal to the senses.
Imagery
Gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object.
Personification
The cold blue water splashed onto the white sandy beach.
Imagery
Almost Eleven Years
By Larry Levy
She no longer sat at the kitchen door.
When put out, she mostly slept
under the lilac, under the step.
No gift of rodent anymore
lay waiting for us in the dawn,
a trophy from her midnight hunt.
A foundling, a long-haired runt
we’d bathed until the fleas were gone.
Now she didn't speak, didn’t complain.
She ignored the nuggets in her dish.
We tried beef, a bit of fish.
Both ended in the compost bin
and in a week were gone to dust,
and when she died, as all things must,
we shoveled through the crust
of ice, and lay her, weightless, in.
Next morning I expected her
to greet me coming down the stairs
or later curled on my chair,
a cloud of gray, electric fur.
A: What is the poet writing about?
B: What is the tone of this poem?
A: his cat getting sick and dying
b: sad / grief / longing / sorrow
The same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines.
Alliteration
Words that appeal to the five senses.
Sensory Language
I can't quite hear the caterpillar chewing... can you?.
Alliteration
A word that imitates the sound it represents, like buzz or thud
Onomatopoeia
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or form of art.
Allusion
The book fell with a loud WACK!
Onomatopoeia