Poetic Elements 8th Grade

The repetition of words in the beginning of lines.

• Refrain

• Concrete Language

• Anaphora

• Repetition

Concrete Language is

• Language that is not meant to be taken literal.

• The use of figurative speech.

• The use of words and phrases that elicit vivid images, sounds, actions, and sensation.

• The use of paper to publish words and phrases.

Exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literal.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Visually descriptive language using the five senses.

• Rhyme

• Imagery

• Figurative language

• Metaphor

Rhyme within lines of a poem - in one line middle and end words can rhyme together.

• End rhyme

• Rhythm

• Internal Rhyme

• Alliteration

Metaphor is

• A comparison between two different things using "like" or "as"

• Opposite ideas

• When two things are the same

• A comparison that directly states that one thing is another thing

How we are made to feel as readers. The emotion evoked from the piece.

• Imagery

• Mood

• Personification

• Rhythm

Onomatopoeia is

• When a word rhymes with another word in the same line

• You give human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

• When the word sounds like its meaning

• When emotion is created for the reader

When you give human characteristics to a nonhuman thing.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

When a line or phrase is repeated throughout a poem

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Refrain

• Anaphora