1. Learning About Poetry

2. Sound Devices Figurative Language Sensory Language
Elements of Poetry
Sound Devices Figurative Language Sensory Language

3. Sound Devices
Sound Devices add a musical quality to poetry. Poets use these devices to enhance a poem’s mood and meaning. Rhyme Rhythm Repetition Onomatopoeia Alliteration

4. Rhyme
Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words, such as pool, mule and fool.

5. Rhythm
Rhythm is the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables: The cat sat on the mat.

6. Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Repetition
Repetition is the use of any element of language—a sound, word , phrase, clause or sentence—more than once.
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle all the Way

7. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds: crash, bang, hiss, splat.

8. Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words:
Lovely, Lonely, Lights

9. Figurative Language
Figurative Language is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. Writers use these figures of speech to state ideas in a vivid and imaginative way. Metaphors Similes Personification Hyperbole

10. The snow was a white blanket over the town.
Metaphors
Metaphors describe one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things.
The snow was a white blanket over the town.

11. Similes
Similes use like or as to compare two apparently unlike things and show similarities between the two: She is as slow as a turtle.

12. Personification
Personification gives human qualities to something that is not human. The wind blew angrily during the storm.

13. I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
Hyperbole is an obvious and intentional exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

14. Sensory Language
Sensory Language is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch
Sensory Language creates word pictures or imagery.

15. Forms of Poetry
Narrative
Lyric
Concrete
Haiku
Limerick
Free Verse

16. Narrative
Narrative poetry tells a story in verse and often have similar elements to a short story, such as plot and characters.

17. Lyric
Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse.

18. Concrete
Concrete poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page.

19. Haiku
Haiku is a three line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven.
Balancing in red
Carefully, so not to fall
A lady with grace

20. Limerick
Limericks are humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme.
There once was a young girl named Jill Who was scared by the sight of a drill She brushed every day So her dentist would say, “Your teeth are so perfect; no bill.”
by Bruce Lansky

21. Free Verse
Free verse is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. The poet is free to write lines of any length or with any number of stresses, or beats.