Free verse poetry has no set rhyme or meter. It uses techniques like alliteration, imagery, similes, personification, and fragments to create rhythmic language. Alliteration repeats sounds at the beginning of words. Imagery uses sensory language to create mental pictures. Similes make comparisons between ideas using "like" or "as". Personification gives human traits to non-human subjects. Fragments are incomplete sentences or ideas.

1. Free-Verse Poetry
Ms. Delgado and Mr. Gonzalez
7th grade
English Class

2. What is Free-Verse?
◊ Definition: Verse composed of
variable, usually unrhymed lines having
no fixed metrical pattern.

3. Elements of Free-Verse
◊ Assonance
◊ Alliteration ◊ Personification
◊ Parallel Structure ◊ Simile
◊ Imagery ◊ Fragments
◊ Onomatopoeia ◊ Rhythmic Language
◊ Cadence ◊ And more…..

4. Alliteration
◊ The repetition of the same sounds or of
the same kinds of sounds at the
beginning of words or in stressed
syllables
• “ rough roundness”
• “the smooth skaterly and sudden swerve”

5. Imagery
◊ The use of vivid or figurative language
to represent objects, actions, or ideas
◊ Using sensory language to create
mental images
• “The sideways slip through a moment of
narrow space”
• “The taste for the rock in your hands…”

6. Simile
◊ A figure of speech that uses like or as
to make a direct comparison between
two unlike ideas.
• “The ball like a piece of long thin long reach
of your body.”

7. Personification
◊ A type of figurative language in which a
non-human subject is given human
characteristics.
• “The way it answers whenever it calls.

8. Fragments
◊ An incomplete idea; sentence.
• “The cool
• The into the under the up”

9. Rhythmic Language
◊ Pattern of beats or stressed in spoken
or written language.
• “like tides going in, going out”