Poetry Elements

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Poetry Elements

• Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds
  at the beginnings of syllables. Tongue twisters
  are an exaggerated use of alliteration. She
  sells seashells by the seashore.

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Poetry Elements

• Assonance The repetition of a vowel sound in
  stressed syllables that end in different
  consonant sounds as with the long i sounds in
  lime light.

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Poetry Elements

• Personification Personification is a figure of
  speech in which something not human is described
  as if it were human. In the poem Deserted Barn
  the barn had feelings.

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Poetry Elements

• Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is the use of words
  or phrases like meow or beep that sound like
  what they name.

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Poetry Elements

• End Rhyme The repetition of sounds at the ends
  of words that appear at the ends of lines.

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Poetry Elements

• Internal Rhyme Rhymes that are within the line
  of a poem as in the title of the poem Hector the
  Collector.

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Poetry Elements

• Repetition Repetition is more than one use of a
  sound word or group of words. Repetition is a
  tool that works to create or enhance rhythm. It
  also gives the sense that the speaker is
  dwelling on the repeated idea. In the poem
  Forgotten Language the repetition of the Once
  I (verb) format is at the beginning of many
  lines.

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Poetry Elements

• Imagery An image is a vivid mental picture
  created in a readers mind by the language. The
  images in a literary work are referred to when
  considered all together as the works imagery.

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Poetry Elements

• Metaphors A metaphor is a figure of speech in
  which one thing is spoken or written is if it
  were another. The figure of speech compares two
  things and often uses is or are to compare the
  two things.
• Examples Love is a red rose.
• A description can also make a comparison- That
  song always leaps from inside me and gallops
  around in circles restless and eager.

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Poetry Elements

• Similes A comparison of two things using like
  or as.
• Example The river flows like a stream of glass.