Poetic Elements

The way a poem looks on the page. This includes the arrangement of words and lines on the page.

• Rhyme

• Form

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Someone (or something) who is the voice of the poem.

• Structured Form

• Metaphor

• Speaker

• Onomatopoeia

An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

Ex: "Your backpack weighs a ton!"

• Stanzas

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

If a poem has REGULAR patterns of rhyme and rhythm, it is called free verse.

• True

  (It is called Free Verse)

• False

  (It is called Structured Form)

The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words.

• Meter

• Personification

• Lines

• Rhyme

Language that appeals to the reader's five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

• Simile

• Imagery

• Meter

• Onomatopoeia

A stanza is made up of _____.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Lines

An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Lines

• Alliteration

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Simile

• Form

Describes an animal or object as if it were human or had human qualities.

• Simile

• Meter

• Personification

• Structured Form