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Elements of Poetry

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    parts of a poems, features, figures of speech
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  • A group of lines that set apart from other groups of lines.
    stanza
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  • One row of text in a poem, a word or a complete sentence.
    line
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  • We measure these in poems, unit of sounds.
    syllable
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  • day by day, until the break of day, I'll find my way, come what may. (This is an example of...)
    rhymes
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  • Patterns of sounds, beat... Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright In the forest of the night.
    rhythm
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  • the author's intentions or feeling put in a text
    tone
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  • the feelings the reader gets from a text
    mood
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  • level of the formality of the language, in poems is high!
    Diction
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  • It gives human traits and feelings to things
    personification
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  • Rays of sunshine danced through the trees. (this is an example of...)
    personification
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  • Shut the shutters before the shouting makes you shudder. (This is an example of...)
    Alliteration
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  • repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a special, emotional effect.
    alliteration
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  • a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described.
    Onomatopoeia
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  • “Oh, the bells, bells, bells! Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! On the bosom of the palpitating air! (this is an example of...)
    Onomatopoeia
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  • Object there was none. Passion there was none. (this is an example of...)
    Hyperbaton
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  • “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street.” (this is an example of...)
    Hyperbole
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