Literary Elements
Giving an object human characteristics
What is Personification?
Public high school
security guard. Fit and optimistic. Charismatic with women.
Dun
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Haiku
Figure of speech that compares two unlike things usually using words "Like or As"
What is a simile?
Wrestling with his identity between private school education and being from a so-called urban community.
Omari
He begins the Open Mike Fridays and introduces poetry to the entire class
Westly
A short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event
What is a Ode
An exaggeration of a statement used to empathize an idea or point
Hyperbole
Single father, struggling
to connect to his own son. Marketing executive.
XAVIER,
six feet tall and shy. People think she should play basketball, but she is secretly an artist
Diandra
poetry that is free from the limitations of a regular meter or rhythm
Free Verse
What is Irony?
English Teacher who hosted slam poetry
She is a teenage mom. Her schoolwork suffers. She strives to graduate high school and go to college.
Gloria
a competitive art event in which poets perform
Poetry slam
What is Anaphora?
a painter and poet. He likens himself to Diego Rivera. He wants to paint and write about the beauty of his Puerto Rican culture.
does not read his poetry aloud. The kids think he is stupid, but he has been hiding a secret: he has dyslexia
Raynard
Loves to design and sew her own clothes. She has low self-esteem
Judianne