ELEMENTS OF POETRY THAT

LOCAL WRITERS USE IN THEIR

POEMS
1. SENSES AND IMAGES
-used by the writer to describe their
impressions of their topic or object
of writing
-the writer uses carefully chosen and
phrased words to create an imagery
that the reader can see through his
or her senses
Categories:
a. Visual imagery
-what the writer wants you to see
b. Olfactory imagery
-what the writer wants you to smell
c. Gustatory imagery
-what the writer wants you to taste
d. Tactile imagery
-what the writer wants you to hear
2. DICTION
- The way writers write and the
words they use to from their
poems
- Denotative and connotative
meaning of the words in a
sentence, phrase, paragraph or
poem
3. RHYME SCHEME
-the way the author arranges
words, meters, lines and stanzas to
create a coherent sound when the
poem is read aloud
4. SPEAKER
-the voice that talks the reader
5. STRUCTURE
-the arrangement of words and
lines, either together or apart
6.WORD ORDER
-either the natural or the
unnatural arrangement of words in a
poem