Poetry Elements

Poet’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject, audience, or themes expressed in the poem.

• Shift

• Alliteration

• Tone

• Mood

Emotional atmosphere or feeling that the poem evokes in the reader.

• Mood

• Theme

• Simile

• Tone

A change in tone, perspective, mood, or subject that occurs at a specific point in the poem.

• Stanza

• Transfer

• Mood

• Shift

The central idea, message, or insight that the poet explores and wishes to communicate to the reader.

• Main Idea

• Tone

• Theme

• Oxymoron

An extreme exaggeration

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Tone

• Metaphor

Uses creative comparisons, exaggerations, or sensory appeals to make writing more engaging and interesting.

• Mood

• Vocabulary

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

Language that appeals to the senses

• Imagery

• Context

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Hyperbole

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words

• Tone

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Onomatopoeia

A direct comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Simile