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    This document defines and provides examples of key literary elements used in poetry, including: 1) The speaker, audience, content, theme, shape and form, mood and tone, and syntax of a poem. 2) Literary devices such as imagery, figures of speech including similes and metaphors, and diction. 3) Sound techniques in poetry including rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

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    This document defines and provides examples of key literary elements used in poetry, including: 1) The speaker, audience, content, theme, shape and form, mood and tone, and syntax of a poem. 2) Literary devices such as imagery, figures of speech including similes and metaphors, and diction. 3) Sound techniques in poetry including rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

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    This document defines and provides examples of key literary elements used in poetry, including: 1) The speaker, audience, content, theme, shape and form, mood and tone, and syntax of a poem. 2) Literary devices such as imagery, figures of speech including similes and metaphors, and diction. 3) Sound techniques in poetry including rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

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    • The Speaker. the person who is addressing the reader.

    • The Audience. the person or people to whom the speaker is


    speaking.
    • Content. the subject of the poem.
    • Theme. the poem is the meaning of the poem.
    • Shape and Form. Structured poetry and Free verse poetry .
    • Mood and Tone. the feeling that the poet creates and that the
    reader senses.
    • Syntax. order of words.
    a. RHYTHM
    • Variation of
    stressed and
    unstressed sounds
    that has same
    regular pattern.
    Rhythm Example
    Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
    It was MAny and MAny a YEAR ag0,
    In a KINGdom BY the SEA,
    That a MAIden THERE lived
    WHOM you may KNOW
    By the NAME of ANnabel LEE;
    And this MAIden she LIVED with
    NO other THOUGHT
    Than to LOVE and be LOVED by
    ME.
    b. IMAGERY
    ✔The collection of
    images in mind.
    ✔Imagery is the use of
    words to create Five Senses
    pictures, or images, in
    your mind.
    ✔Appeals to the five
    senses.
    Which of the following is another
    example of imagery?
    a. There is a white bird in the
    sky.
    b. The delicate white bird flew
    gracefully through the blue sky.
    c. I heard the birds and saw
    them flying
    ❖To create vivid
    images writers use
    figures of speech.
    Figures of speech
    are tools that writers
    use to create images,
    or “paint pictures,” in
    your mind.
    KINDS OF
    FIGURES OF
    SPEECH
    1. SIMILE
    • Indirect
    comparison of
    ideas, things, or
    images.
    • Uses the words
    “like”, “looks like”
    The runner streaked like
    a cheetah.
    or “as as ”.
    2. METAPHOR
    • Direct
    The Night is a Big Black Cat

    comparison
    The Night is a big black cat
    The moon is her topaz eye,

    of ideas.
    The stars are the mice she hunts at
    night,
    In the field of the sultry sky.

    By G. Orr Clark
    3. HYPERBOLE
    • An Ex. Waves
    mountain high
    exaggeration suddenly appeared.
    of
    something.
    4. OXYMORON
    • Two Ex. His

    contradicto cruel
    kindness
    ry terms in is beyond
    one compare.
    statement.
    5. SYNECDOCHE
    • Naming yourEx. Show

    of parts respect
    to suggest snowy
    for the

    the whole. hair.


    6. PERSONIFICATION
    • Giving From “Mister Sun”

    human Mister Sun

    attributes
    Wakes up at dawn,
    Puts his golden

    to
    Slippers on,
    Climbs the summer

    inanimate
    Sky at noon,
    Trading places

    objects.
    With the moon.
    by J. Patrick Lewis
    7. ALLUSIONS
    • Reference to any Ex. As he
    literary, biblical,
    historical, acts like
    mythological Pilate, the
    scientific event, innocent
    character, or
    place.
    sobs.
    Example:
    ❖Mathematics is
    her Achilles’
    heel.
    8. Understatement
    • Employed by writers Ex. I only won
    or speakers to
    intentionally make a ten million
    situation seem less dollars
    important than it
    really is. yesterday.
    9. Paradox
    • A paradox is a Ex. She will
    statement that
    appears at first to kill him with
    be contradictory, kindness.
    but upon reflection
    then makes sense.
    10. Apostrophe
    Ex. She will
    kill him with
    kindness.
    11. Metonymy
    A figure of speech in Ex. The pen is
    which one object or
    idea takes the place mightier than
    of another with which a sword.
    it has a close
    association.
    c. DICTION
    • Words ⮚Connotation:

    chosen for a The way a word makes


    us feel.
    supposedly
    ⮚Denotation:
    inherent The actual dictionary
    poetic quality. definition of the
    word.
    TYPES OF DICTION
    1. Formal diction
    - formal words • Ex. Hello, young
    are used in man. It is a true
    formal situations, pleasure to
    such as press make your
    conferences and acquaintance.
    presentations. How are you
    feeling today?
    2. Informal diction
    - Uses informal
    words and • Ex. Hey, kid.
    conversation, Nice to meet
    such as writing ya. What's up?
    or talking to
    friends.
    3. Colloquial diction
    - Uses words Ex:
    common in • Bo bananas, or go
    everyday speech, nuts – go insane
    or be very angry
    which may be
    • Wanna – want to
    different in
    • Gonna – going to
    different regions
    • Y’all – you all
    or communities.
    4. Slang diction
    Ex:
    - is the use of • LOL: “Laughing out
    words that are loud.”
    • Hashtag: An interesting
    newly coined, slang example which is
    taken from writing and
    or even adopted into speech,
    impolite the hashtag is used to
    define the
    main theme of a post.
    “He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving
    somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.
    “One
    time he killed a man who had found out that he was
    nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the
    devil.
    Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into
    that
    there crystal glass.”

    (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)


    d. SOUNDS
    • Some poems • Rhymes
    use • Alliteration
    techniques • Assonance
    of sound • Consonance
    such as:
    5. ONOMATOPOEIA
    • Having a Zip,
    zoom!
    sound that Bang,
    imitates boom!
    what they
    denote.
    6. Meter
    It is a unit of
    The most common examples of
    metrical feet are:
    • Trochee: stressed syllable followed by

    rhythm in •
    unstressed syllable, as in “custom”
    Iamb: unstressed syllable followed by

    poetry, the
    stressed syllable, as in “describe”
    • Spondee: equal stress for both syllables,
    as in “cupcake”

    pattern of the • Dactyl: stressed syllable, followed by


    two unstressed syllables, as in “bicycle”

    beats. • Anapest: two unstressed syllables,


    followed by a stressed syllable, as in
    “understand”
    7. Repitition
    involves using the EX.
    same word or Water, water
    phrase over and everywhere, and not
    over again in a a drop to drink.
    piece of writing
    or speech.

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