The document discusses different elements of poetry including structure, sounds, pictures, and stories. It defines poetic structures like stanzas, repetition, and rhyme. It also defines poetic devices that create sound, imagery, and meaning including alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, metaphor, simile, and personification. Finally, it discusses ballads as a type of poetic storytelling structure.

1. The Wonderful World of Poetry English 9

2. Structure of Poetry Stanza A section of poetry – the “paragraph” of a poem Repetition When any element of language is used more than once Rhyme Repetition of sounds at the end of words

3. Structure of Poetry Meter – a.k.a. rhythm The pattern of beats or stresses Can be specific and consistent Free verse Poetry not written in a regular meter Usually does not rhyme

4. Sounds of Poetry Alliteration Repetition of beginning consonant sounds Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds not at the beginning

5. Sounds of Poetry Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds “weak and weary” Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate sounds Buzz, thud, hiss

6. Pictures of Poetry Metaphor Calling a thing something it is not It implies a comparison. He is a rock. Imagery Descriptive language used to create pictures in the mind of the reader Appeals to the five senses

7. Pictures of Poetry Simile Comparing two things by using the words “like” or “as” “caught two in his hands like squirming puppies” Personification Giving a non-human thing human characteristics “death sat there huge; how could we slip away?”

8. Stories of Poetry Ballad A song-like poem that tells a story Four to six line stanzas Regular rhythm and rhyme schemes Refrain A repeated line or group of lines Similar to a chorus in a song