Elements Elements of Poetryof PoetryElements Elements of Poetryof Poetry
• Characteristics of Poetry- – Poetry uses concise, rhythmic, and
emotionally charged language.
– The language of poetry emphasizes the re-creation of experiences..
Important Poetic Parts• Stanza
– is a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. Types of stanzas include:
– Couplet: 2-line Sestet: 6-lin– Quatrain: 4-line Octave: 8-line – Cinquain: 5-line
• Structure: Line length, fonts, word placement, use of white space
• Dialect/Slang-• A language spoken by people of particular
region or group “I’m fixin’ to leave”
Concepts in Meaning• Figurative Language:
– is meant to be interpreted imaginatively.– Simile, metaphor, personification and
imagery• Simile:
– a comparison between two unlike things using “like or as”.
• Metaphor: – compares 2 unlike things. Metaphors say
that one thing IS another.
• Her home is a prison.
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• Rhyme scheme: – is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
Lower case letters are used to indicate the pattern.•Ex: aabba
• Repetition: – refers to sound, words, phrases or lines that are
used more than once.
• Idiom: A phrase or saying not based on the literal meaning of the words but used to express a thought or concept in a descriptive manner.
Mood• Mood is a feeling
that a poem creates in the reader.
• Poets creates the mood with the length of sentences, the words chose, punctuation, and the sounds of the words.
• Mood is a feeling that a poem creates in the reader.
• Poets creates the mood with the length of sentences, the words chose, punctuation, and the sounds of the words.
Poor by Myra Livingston
I heard of poor.It means hungry, no food.No shoes, no place to live,Nothing good.
It means winter nightsAnd being cold,It is lonely, alone.Feeling old.
Poor is a tired face.Poor is thin.Poor is standing Looking in.
Short words and lines create a serious mood.
Words create a feeling of sadness.
TONE• Tone is the
attitude a writer takes toward the subject or audience of a poem.
The Crocodile
How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,And pour the water of the NileOn every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws,And welcomes little fishes in,With gently smiling jaws!
The subject of the poem is crocodiles. The author’s attitude towards crocodiles is that they are dangerous.
• Connotation •attitudes and feelings associated with a
word as opposed to a word’s literal meaning.
•“He is a real snake in the grass.”= evil or dangerous
• Risk (accident or ticket)
•Denotation • •the literal meaning of a word, the
"dictionary definition.”
• even without words, we recognize the meaning from the shape and color
• Snake: any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles.
• Personification: – gives human characteristics or qualities to
animals, ideas or lifeless objects.
• Imagery/Sensory language: – appeals to the 5 senses.
• Theme: – is the central idea in the work.
»Ex: love, compassion
• Hyperbole: – is exaggeration for effect.
• Allusion: – is a reference to a well-known person,
place, event, or literary work.– EX: “His wife was his Achilles' heel.”
His wife is his weakness • Symbol:
– is anything that stands for something else.
– They are usually concrete images that represent ideas.
*Dove represents Peace
Concepts of Sound• Rhyme:
– is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• Near Rhyme: – are words that almost rhyme. – They don’t have the same amount of
syllables• Ex: men--again so--aglow whey—away
• Assonance: – is the repetition of vowel sounds at the
beginning of words.• Ex: Adam ate a lot of apples
• Alliteration: – is the repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginnings of words.
• Rhythm: – is the pattern of stresses, or beats in spoken or
written language.
• Onomatopoeia: – is the use of words that imitate
sounds.
