The Elements of Poetry

The Elements of Poetry

Creator: Rhea P. Rosete

​What is a Poetry

It is an art form in which human language is used for aesthetic qualities.

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• Expression of man's best thoughts, emotions or feelings coated in a beautiful language.

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Kinds of Poetry

Lyric Poetry

Narrative Poetry

Dramatic Poetry​

1. Figurative Language

Language that is used to

 convey something that is

different from the literal

dictionary definition of the

word.

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What are the kinds of figurative language that you know?

A. Figurative Language that are used for comparison

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

B. Figurative language for sound devices

• OCRAA

• Onomatopoeia

• Consonance

• ​Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

C. Figurative Language used for Emphasis

Irony

​Hyperbole

​Synedoche

​Metonymy

​Allusion

​Litotes

​Anaphora

​Oxymoron

​Tautology

The Raven (By Edgar Allen Poe)

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ​

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Once upon a midnight dreary,

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​while I pondered, weak and weary

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What element of poetry is signaled by the underlined words in each line?

2.Rhyme

a tool utilizing

repeating patterns that bring

 rhythm or musicality to poems.

This differentiates them from

prose, which is plain.

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What are the two kinds of rhyme?

Kinds of Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme- Achieved through the use of sound devices

• End Rhyme-words at the end of the line of a poem that sound the same.

  
  

What is a Rhyme scheme?

Letters of the alphabet that represent the sounds

All Bright and Beautiful

All things bright and beautiful

All creatures great and small

All things wise and wonderful

The Lord God made them all.

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What is the longest English word that has no vowel?

Rhythm

3.Rhythm and Meter

• Rhythm-the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or

  stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Meter-a unit of rhythm in 

  poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot.

Kinds of Meter

​Iambic

​Anapestic

​Trochaic

​Dactyli

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What is Tone and Mood?

4.Tone and Mood

• Tone- the attitude of the writer towards his writing

• Mood- the feeling the audience/reader could draw from the piece.

From one thousand mountains the birds‘ flights are gone;

From ten thousand byways the human track has vanished.

In a single boat, an aged man, straw cloak and hat,

Fishes alone; snow falls, cold in the river.

4.Denotation and Connotation

• Denotation- the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the

   word suggests

• Connotation-an idea or feeling

  which a word invokes for a person

  in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Describe the rose

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What element of poetry is the one that ignites the imagination of the reader by giving images perceivable by the five senses?

6.Imagery

An element that spark off the senses.

Despite "image" being a synonym for "picture", images need not be only visual; any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (By William Wordsworth)

“I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

7.Symbolism

• Symbolism can take different forms. Generally, it is an object representing another, to give an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant.

• Sometimes, however, an action, an event or a word spoken by someone may have a symbolic value.

• For instance, “smile” is a symbol of friendship. Similarly, the action of someone smiling at you may stand as a symbol of the feeling of affection which that person has for you.

As you Like It (By William Shakespeare)

• “All the world’s a stage,

  And all the men and women merely players;

  they have their exits and their entrances;

  And one man in his time plays many parts,”

  
  

• These lines are symbolic of the fact that men and women, in the course of their lives, perform different roles. “A stage” here symbolizes the world, and “players” is a symbol for human beings.

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Open Ended

What is defined as underlying or central idea/topic of any writing?

8.Theme

The underlying

message, or 'big idea.' In other words, it is the

critical belief about life

the author is trying to

convey.

Open Ended

Give the eight (8) elements of poetry.

How do the elements of poetry help you understand/ comprehend any kind of poetry?

In what way poetry help develop critical thinking?