Poetry uses elements like rhythm, imagery, figurative language, sound devices, and form to convey moods and emotions. It can take many forms using techniques like similes, metaphors, personification, rhyme and rhythm. Some common elements of poetry are figurative language, sound devices, mood, rhythm and style which can be free verse, rhyming couplets, limericks, haikus or other patterns. Poetry allows writers to share feelings and pictures through carefully chosen words.

1. What is poetry?rhythm, style, mood, sound devices, haiku, limericks, rhyming, thoughts, emotions, similes, metaphors, personification, tone, shapes, colors, beat, pattern, movement, imagery, alliteration, hyperbole, punctuation, onomatopoeia, laughter, tears,an expression of art through words

2. Although poems can take many forms, they do have some elements in common.Figurative LanguageSound DevicesMoodRhythmStyle

3. Figurative language includes similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole. Friendship by Emma GuestA friend is like a flower,a rose to be exact,Or maybe like a brand new gate That never come unlatched.A friend is like an owl,Both beautiful and wise.Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost, Whose spirit never dies.A friend is like a heart that goesStrong until the end.Where would we be in this worldIf we didn’t have a friend.

4. Some sound devices used in poetry are alliteration and onomatopoeia. Poems by Mother GooseAnimals Daddy’s Gone A HuntingBow-wow, says the dog Bye, baby buntingMew, mew says the cat Daddy’s gone a-huntingGrunt, grunt, goes the hog Gone to get a rabbit skinAnd squeak goes the rat. To wrap baby bunting in.Tu, whu, says the owl,Quack, quack says the duck,And what the cuckoo says you know.

5. Mood refers to the feeling, spirit or tone of the poem.My Book Report Is Due TodayMy book report is due today.I haven’t finished yet.In fact, I haven’t started ,which I’m coming to regret.I haven’t even read the book.I put it off so long.I thought I’d have a lot of time.It looks like I was wrong.I’d ask my older brotherWhat this book is all about,But he’s already left for school and cannot help me out.I’d hustle to the movie storeAnd rent the DVD,But I don’t even have the timeTo watch it on TV.I guess I’ll have to fake itAnd pretend I read the book.Then write a bunch of nonsenseAnd assorted Gobblyedygook.It’s either that, or do the thingMy conscience knows is right:I’ll claim I’m sick and stay at home and finish it tonight!-Kenn Nesbitt

6. Rhythm is the effect of certain patterns in repetition, timing, spacing, and accenting of words. A LimerickThere was a young man from PeruWho found a large fly in his stew.Said the waiter, “Don’t shoutAnd wave it aboutOr the rest will be wanting one too!”

7. Style is characterized by the type of poem such as free verse, rhyming couplets, limerick, haiku, acrostic, etc. Day Bright, sunny, Laughing, playing, doing, Up in the east, down in the west- Talking, resting, sleeping. Quiet, dark Night

8. Writing an original poem gives you a chance to share your feelings and create pictures in the minds of readers with carefully chosen words. Winter Poem- by Nikki Giovanni once a snowflake fell on my brow and I loved it so much I kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then I reached to love them all and I squeezed them and they became a spring rain and I stood perfectly still and was a flower

9. WinterWinter has arrivedTrees are empty sticksWaiting for the spring

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