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    This document defines poetry and its key literary elements. It states that poetry is literature written in verse form that uses figurative language and sound devices to convey layered meanings. Some literary elements discussed include simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. Examples are provided to illustrate each element.

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    This document defines poetry and its key literary elements. It states that poetry is literature written in verse form that uses figurative language and sound devices to convey layered meanings. Some literary elements discussed include simile, metaphor, personification, imagery, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance. Examples are provided to illustrate each element.

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    Elements

    Elements of
    of Poetry
    Poetry
    Definition of Poetry
    • Literature in verse form (a
    controlled arrangement of lines
    and stanzas)

    • Uses language to express layers


    of meaning
    Literary Elements
    • Figurative language

    – Language that is used


    imaginatively rather than
    literally to express
    ideas/feelings
    Examples:
    • Simile: uses “like” or “as” to
    compare 2 essentially unlike
    things

    • Ex./She runs like the wind.


    Metaphor
    • Compares 2 like things describing
    one as if it were the other

    • ex./ My brother’s room is a


    pigpen.
    Personification
    • A figure of speech in which human
    qualities are given to a non-human
    subject

    • Ex./ The feather tickled my face.


    Imagery
    • Descriptive language that
    creates vivid impressions.

    • Uses sensory language; appeals to


    the 5 senses
    Musical qualities
    • Poets often use sound devices to
    achieve a musical quality

    • They do this by the language


    that they use
    Rhythm
    • Pattern created by stressed and
    unstressed syllables

    • Ordered pattern of rhythm is called


    meter
    Rhyme
    • Repetition of identical sounds in
    the last syllables of words

    • Pattern of rhyme at end of lines


    in a poem is called rhyme scheme
    Alliteration
    • Initial rhyme

    • Repetition of first consonant

    • Ex./the light lemon lollipop


    Assonance
    • Vowel rhyme

    • Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby


    words

    • Ex./ date and fade


    Consonance
    • Repetition of consonants within
    nearby words in which the
    separating vowels differ

    • Ex./ milk and walk

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