1. Elements of Poetry
Poetry Unit Day 2

2. Poetic Elements Dealing with Word Choice
Rhyme
Imagery
Alliteration
Repetition
Tone
Mood

3. Rhyme Repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Poets use rhyme to lend a song-like quality to their verses and to emphasize certain words or ideas
Many poems contain end-rhymes or rhyming words at the ends of lines

4. Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses
Writers use imagery to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell
Poets often paint images, or word pictures, that also appeal to your senses
These pictures help you experience the poem fully

5. Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Writers use this to draw attention to certain words or ideas to imitate sounds and to create musical effects

6. Repetition
Use, more than once, of any element of language- A sound, word, phrase clause or sentence
Used in prose and poetry

7. Tone Writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject
Often be described by an adjective such as formal or informal, serious or playful, bitter or ironic
Factors that contribute to the tone are word choice, sentence structure, line length, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition

8. Mood Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Similar to tone

9. Organization of Poetry
Structure
Lines
Stanza
Couplet
Tercet
Quatrain

10. Stanza
Group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces
Like a paragraph of poetry
It states and develops a single main idea

11. Couplet
Two lines of a verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

12. Tercet
A set or group of three lines in a verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet

13. Quatrain
A stanza of four lines; one having alternate rhymes

14. Types of Poetry Formal Verse Free Verse Lyric Poetry Narrative Poetry
Ballads
Epic Poetry
Dramatic Poetry

15. Formal Verse
Poetry that overtly uses the effects of meter, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms (sonnets, villanelles etc.)

16. Free Verse
Poetry that is open to pattern and is recognized as nonconforming and rhyme-less verse.

17. Lyric Poetry
Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
Creates single unified impression

18. Narrative Poetry Story told in verse
Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories including characters, conflict, and plot

19. Ballads A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

20. Epic Poetry
Heroic poetry
Poetry celebrating the deeds of a hero

21. Dramatic Poetry
A verse or verses which are written to be spoken, usually by a character invented by the author himself.
As opposed to lyric and narrative poetry, dramatic poetry is narrated by the characters themselves.
The term is also used to refer to plays written in verse, such as most of Shakespeare's plays.