elements of poetry

voice

speaker and tone

speaker

the voice being heard

tone

use of meter and rhyme

from details of a poem’s language

diction

connotations and denotations

imagery

may be visual, aural, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory

figures of speech

language can be literal or figurative
example: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, apostrophe, personification, metonymy, oxymoron

symbol

any object or action that represents smth beyond itself

allegory

extended metaphor; meaning lies outside the work itself

syntax

from Greek word meaning “to arrange together”
grammatical structure of words, deployment of sentences

sound

rhyme, alliteration, assonance

rhyme

matching of final and consonant sounds in two or more words

alliteration

repetition of consonant sounds esp in beginning of words (ex: furrow followed free)

assonance

repetition of middle vowel sounds (ex: fight, hive)

consonance

repetition of inner/end consonant sounds (ex: broods with warm breast)

rhythm and meter

feature that distinguishes poetry from prose

rhythm

regular recurrence of the accent/stress at regular intervals (effect of repeated patterns)

meter

measure of patterned count of a poetic line / count of the stresses