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POETRY
 Elements of poetry
• Elements of poetry can be defined as a set
of instruments used to create a poem.
• They help bring imagery and emotion to
poetry, stories, and dramas.
 STANZAS

A unit of lines grouped together

Similar to a paragraph in prose
Types of stanzas
 Tone and mood

• The feeling an author conveys in a story. • The feeling a reader gets.

• Can offer insight into an author’s views and • Can provide insight into a reader’s views and
experiences.
experiences.
• Dependent on the reader’s feelings towards a piece.
• Something an author can convey clearly.
• Occurs when an author ‘shows.’
• Tone happens when an author ‘tells.’
 Imagery
• Representation of the five senses: sight, taste,
touch, sound, and smell.
• Creates mental images about a poem’s subject
 Repetition
A word or phrase repeated within a line or stanza.
Example:
Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses
and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
 Rhyme Scheme
 The pattern in which end
rhyme occurs.
 Rhymes are types of poems
which have the the repetition of
the same or similar sounds at
the end of two or more words
most often at the ends of lines.
 Theme
•Theme The theme of the poem talks about the central idea, the
thought behind what the poet wants to convey.
•A theme can be anything from a description about a person or
thing, a thought or even a story.
•In short, a theme stands for whatever the poem is about.
 Symbolism
• A poem often conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using symbols, this
technique is known as symbolism.
• A symbol in poetry can stand for anything and makes the reader take a
systematic approach which helps him/her look at things in a different
light.
• A symbol is a poetry style that is usually thought of in the beginning.
Symbolism
Type of poetry
 Dramatic

  Dramatic Poetry Dramatizes action though dialogue or

monologue.
 A Dramatic poem often includes characters and
dialogue.
Narrative
• Narrative Poetry Poetry-Tells a story.
• A Poem that tells a story, and has the
elements of a story.
• Often, Narrative poems have a rhyme
scheme. “ The Raven” -Edgar Allen
Poe 
 Lyric
• Expresses Personal thoughts and emotions. Lyric
poems are about love, but they can be about
anything which stirs the emotions. 
• One of the examples of lyric poetry is a poem by
Emily Dickinson named “I Felt a Funeral in my
Brain”. It describes a person who is going insane,
or thinks they are
 Figurative language
•
 Comparing two unlike things using
like or as.

Example :
Simile •Love is like war: easy to begin
but very hard to stop. (H.L.
Mencken)
•Metaphor: Comparison of
two objects without using like or as.
• Example: Cause baby you’re a
firework, Come on show them
what you’re worth, Make them go oh,
oh, oh, As you shoot across the sky
Personification: When human like qualities are
given to an animal or object.

• Example:
• An overly gregarious puppy.
• A decrepit old car.
 When something that wasn’t
expected happens. Or when the
Irony opposite of what is expected
happens
 Onomatopoeia defined as words whose
spelling and pronunciation imitate natural sounds.
Examples:
The bees are buzzing in the garden.
Sound He splashed happily in the pool.

devices Alliteration –is the repetition of consonant

sounds within a sentence or a phrase.
Examples:
She sells seashells by the seashore.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.