Poetic Elements
Words or sounds that imitate what they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia?
The use of words to create impressions by adding sensory details
What is Imagery?
This is important because there isn't as much room in a poem to convey your meaning to your audience like there is in a story.
What is Word Choice?
A comparison between two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Has three lines, comes from Japan, and 17 syllables spilt into 5-7-5 structure.
What is a Haiku?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words or lines
What is Rhyme?
"As I walked into the bakery, the scent of bread, muffins, and cakes surrounded me" appeals to this sense.
What is Smell?
Focuses on the Audience.
What is Mood?
A comparison between two things not using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Has five lines, is humorous, with an AABBA rhyme scheme and a sing-song rhythm.
What is a Limerick?
Repetition of the same letter sound at the beginning of words
What is Alliteration?
"The sunlight warmed my shoulders as the breeze chilled my arms" appeals to this sense.
What is touch?
Focuses on the Author.
What is Tone?
Using human traits or characteristics with nonhuman objects or things.
Has both poetic elements and narrative elements.
What is a Narrative Poem?
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Rhythm?
"Even as I squinted, the swirling, gray fog obscured almost everything in my path" appeals to this sense.
What is the Sight?
The overall atmosphere or effect of a poem.
What is Mood?
Extreme exaggeration for effect.
What is hyperbole?
Has no rules. Is considered the Wild West of poetry.
What is Free Verse?
Repeating words, phrases, lines or stanzas; used for emphasis in poetry
What is Repetition?
"I could barely hear the referee's whistle over the music of the marching band and the screams of the fans in the stands" appeals to this sense.
What is Sound?
How the author or narrator feels about the topic/subject.
What is Tone?
Using language beyond its literal, dictionary defintion.
What is Figurative Language?
A type of narrative poem meant to be sung, though it doesn't have a strict structure, it is traditionally 13 lines with an ABAB BCBC rhyme scheme.
What is a Ballad?