THE ELEMENTS

OF POETRY
TERMINOLOGY TO THE
RESCUE!!!
Refer to:
 Textbook, Activity 2, p29 AND
 English terminology paper.
Hello!
POET:
PERSON WHO WROTE THE POEM

TITLE:
NAME OF THE POEM

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 THEME:
MESSAGE OF THE POEM

WHAT IS THE MAIN

IDEA OF THIS
POEM?
SUMMER FUN AT
THE BEACH
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 STRUCTURE OF A
LINE: POEM-
The way the STANZA:
A single stanzas are
A group of
arranged in a
line in a poem. It will lines that form
one idea in a
stanza create a specific
effect on the poem
reader.
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DIFFERENT POEM STRUCTURES AND
TYPES:
BALLAD
ELEGY
EPIC
SONNET = 14
LINES, 4
QUATRAINS,
1 COUPLET
FREE
VERSE 5
 RHYTHM: RHYME:
The way that SOUNDS are used in Words at the end of the line that
a poem to create a specific beat. sounds the same.

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 FIGURES OF
SPEECH –
YOU HAVE TO “FIGURE
OUT” WHAT IT MEANS

THAT’S WHY:
WE CALL IT
“FIGURES” OF
 MAIN FIGURES OF SPEECH:

COMPARISONS SOUND DEVICES / OVER / UNDER OPPOSITES

NOISES STATEMENTS

Metaphor Alliteration Hyperbole Oxymoron

Simile Assonance Antitheses
Personification Onomatopoeia Paradox
Pun Irony
 COMPARISONS
1 SIMILE=
COMPARE TWO THINGS
USING THE WORDS LIKE / AS

Using “like” or “as” doesn’t

make a simile.
A comparison must be made.

Not a Simile: I like pizza.

Simile: The moon is like a pizza.

 COMPARISONS
2 COMPARE
Metaphor-
TWO
THINGS
One thing is the other

Men are dogs.

Her heart is stone.
The sun is a golden ball.
 THEORUM OF
COMPARISON
Crying all
WHY?
the time

METAPHOR
Person / / SIMILE Hound
WHAT? WHAT?
dog
friend
 COMPARISONS
3 Personification:
Giving human
qualities to things
that are not human
The sunlight danced.
Water on the lake shivers.
The streets are calling me.
 SOUND DEVICES:
01 02 03
ALLITERATION ASSONANCE ONOMATOPOEIA
The repetition of The repetition of Words that imitate
consonant VOWEL sounds sounds.
sounds at the in the middle of
beginning of words.
words.
 TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE:
He clasps the crag with
crooked hands;
Close to the sun in
lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure
world, he stands.
TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE

The teacher is a walking

dictionary
TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
The sun was SPLAT!
beating
down on me
 POETRY TERMINOLOGY QUIZ:

QUESTION 1: Supply ONE word for the following descriptions

a) The person who writes a poem =

b) The name of a poem =

c) The central idea of a poem =

d) A group of lines in poetry that forms one part of the poem =

e) One line of a stanza =

f) The way stanzas are arranged in a poem =

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 POETRY TERMINOLOGY QUIZ:

QUESTION 2: Identify the following figures of speech

a) He is as hairy as a gorilla!

b) The sun was a glowing pearl.

c) The leaves danced their way through the lawn.

d)

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 POETRY TERMINOLOGY QUIZ:

QUESTION 3: Identify the following elements of sound

a) b)

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 POETRY TERMINOLOGY QUIZ:

QUESTION 3: Identify the following elements of sound

c)

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 POETRY TERMINOLOGY QUIZ:

QUESTION 4: Write down 2 pairs of rhyming words from the following

poem.

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