Elements of Poetry Basics

1. A change in the poem’s tone, mood, perspective, or idea.
4. Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to help readers picture or experience something.
5. A single row of words in a poem.
7. The repetition of similar ending sounds in words, often at the ends of lines in a poem.
9. A type of figurative language that gives human qualities or actions to animals, objects, or ideas.
11. The author’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem.
12. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates the rhythm of a poem.
13. The voice or persona that is telling the poem (not always the author).

1. An object, image, or action that represents a deeper meaning or idea beyond its literal meaning.
2. An extreme exaggeration used to emphasize a feeling or idea.
3. The central message or deeper idea about life that the poem communicates.
6. A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
8. A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.
10. Language that describes something in a creative or non-literal way to help readers imagine ideas more vividly (for example: similes, metaphors, and personification).
12. A direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.