Poetry techniques
Elements of SMILE
Types of poems
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When an object is given human characteristics.

Personification

100

What the poet is trying to say in the poem.

Meaning

100

A poem in which the first letter of each new line spells out a word.

Acrostic poem

100

The author of Romeo & Juliet.

William Shakespeare

100

Words at the end of lines in a poem that have the same final sound.

Rhyme

200

Words that begin with the same consonant sound that are consecutive or close together.

Alliteration

200

The words and techniques used in a poem.

Language

200

A type of poem that is focused on something or someone that you really love.

An ode

200

The author of The Cat in the Hat.

Dr Seuss

200

The same word is used twice or more within a single text.

Repetition

300

A sentence that tells us about one subject by saying that it is like something else, using the words \"like\" or \"as\" in the sentence.

Simile

300

A part of a poem that appeals to the senses to create a vivid picture for readers.

Imagery

300

A rhyming poem with an AABBA structure.

A limerick

300

The author of California Love.

Tupac

300

"Paragraphs" in a poem

Stanza

400

A sentence that tells us about one subject by saying that it is something else. It is not literally true.

Metaphor

400

The way in which the text is set out to the reader.

Structure

400

An unrhymed poem consisting of 17 syllables.

A haiku

400

The author of The Raven.

Edgar Allan Poe.

400

Descriptive words and phrases used to create an image in the mind of the responder.

Imagery

500

When a word sounds like the sound it refers to.

Onomatopoeia

500

The feeling or mood conveyed by the writer's language choices.

Effect

500

A poem written from the point of view of an animal, plant or object.

A personification poem

500

The author of Preludes.

T.S. Eliot

500

The use of real objects to represent something that is abstract, like a feeling.

Symbolism

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