Poetry Elements

The art of expressing one's thoughts in verse

• Verse

• Prose

• Poetry

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

referred to as an exaggeration; describes something as larger or wildly different than it really is

• Mood

• Tone

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

direct comparison between two things, "your eyes are the mirror of your soul"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Tone

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas, "The sun's rays reached out and hugged me."

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

attitude a writer takes toward a subject

• Hyperbole

• Mood

• Tone

• Imager

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

the use of a word, phrase or line more than once

• Simile

• Mood

• Personification

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

the feeling or atmosphere that a poem creates

• Tone

• Mood

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

comparison between two things using like or as, "your smile is like the warmth of sunshine."

• Metaphor

• Tone

• Mood

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

the language that appeals to the five senses; touch, taste, smell, sight, sound,

• Imagery

• Tone

• Repetition

• Poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

use of words that sound like the noises they describe

• Free Verse

• Symbol

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.11