This document provides an overview of poetry for students, defining poetry, distinguishing it from prose, and outlining various figures of speech used in poetry including similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, irony, onomatopoeia, paradox, oxymoron, euphemism, and symbols. It explains that poetry uses language in a different form than prose through the use of stanzas and verses rather than sentences and paragraphs. The document also notes that poetry can have both a literal and deeper figurative meaning, and provides examples of different figures of speech.