Elements of Poetry

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Imagery

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Creates a picture in the reader's mind.

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Onomatopoeia

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Sound words that imitate natural sounds, like 'buzz' or 'sizzle'.

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Rhythm

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The musical quality of a poem, created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Personification

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Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things.

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Theme

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The message about life that the poem conveys.

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Rhyme

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The repetition of similar sounds at the end of lines in a poem.

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Stanza

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A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a series of words.