This document discusses various elements of poetry, including how poets carefully choose words to express ideas through rhythm, sound, and imagery. It describes common poetic devices like rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia that add musicality and vivid descriptions. Figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification are discussed as tools to create vivid imagery in poetry. Different forms of poetry are also mentioned, including acrostic, shape, couplet, haiku, and free verse poems.

1. (the fun way to use words)
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2.  In poetry the sound and meanings of words are
combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas.
 The poet chooses words carefully.
 Poetry is usually written in lines.

3.  Rhythm
 Sound
 Imagery
 Forms and Types

4.  It is the flow of the beat in the poem.
 It gives poetry a musical feel.
 It can be fast or slow, depending on mood and subject
of poem.
 You can measure rhythm in meter, by counting the beats
in each line.

7. Writers love to use interesting sounds in their poems. These
sound devices include:
 Rhyme
 Repetition
 Alliteration
 Onomatopoeia

8. Rhymes are words that end with the same sound. Like Cat
in the Hat. This is the most common sound device in Poetry.
However, not all poetry has to rhyme.

9.  Repetition occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or
lines in a poem.
 It creates a pattern
 It increases rhythm
 It strengthens feelings, ideas and mood in a poem
Let it go!
Let it go!

10.  Alliteration is the repetition of the first consonant
sound in words as in the nursery rhyme: ‘‘Peter Piper
picked a peck of pickled peppers.’’

11. They are words that represent the actual sound of
something. Examples are:
 The dog barks
 The cat purrs
 Thunder booms
 Rain drips
 Clock ticks

13.  Figurative language or figures of speech are tools that
writers use to create images, or ‘‘paint pictures’’ in
your mind.
 Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles and
symbolism are 5 figures of speech that create imagery.

14. A simile compares 2 things using the words ‘‘like’’ or ‘‘as’’.
Comparing one thing to another creates a vivid image.
Example:
 Jackneisha ran fast like a cheetah.

15.  A metaphor compares 2 things that are different by
using the words: is, are, was, were.
 It gives the qualities of one thing to something that is
quite different.

17. Personification gives human qualities and feelings to things
that are not human- like animals or objects.

19. A hyperbole is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes
a point, and can be ridiculous or funny. Examples:
 You snore louder than a train engine.
 I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
 Puerto Rico is the most beautiful place in the world.

20. Symbolism occurs when a word, which has meaning in
itself, is used to represent something entirely different.
Examples are:
 Using an image of the Puerto Rican flag to represent
patriotism and a love for one’s country.
 Using an apple to represent education.
 Using a heart to represent love.

21. Lines and Stanzas
 Most poems are
written in lines.
 A group of lines in a
poem is called a
stanza.
 Stanzas separate
ideas in a poem.
LINE
STANZA

22. There are many types of Poetry; some are:
 Acrostic
 Shape
 Couplet
 Haiku
 Cinquain
 Diamante
 Humorous
 Narrative
 Lyric
 Free Verse

31. A Shape Poem is a type of poetry that describes an
object and is shaped the same as the object the poem
is describing.