Poetic-Elements

By: Lacey Thompson

Simile

Definition-comparing two nouns that unlike, with “like” or “as.”

Example: Sadness is as happy as laughter.

You might cry because it hurts.You might laugh because it hurts.But I know one thing,laughter is laughter and sadnessis sadness.They can show the same things like hurting and gladness.

By Rachel

My Poem

Riding a horse is like reading a bookWhen you ride a horse

You learn something different about themAnd if you were to read a book

You could some thing newAnd possible be interested

Just as in riding.Each are very different, but

Some what the sameLike peanut butter and jelly!

Alliteration

Definition-when tow or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound.

Example: Rain Rain races,

Ripping like wind.Its restless rageRattles likeRocks ripping throughThe air.

By Jake

My poemHappy hoping horsesOn there marry way

Eating hayee hay bales And horsen around all day.Bucking, Kicking, stomping,

Snorting up a stormOff they do a running

When the thunder starts to roar!Happy hoping horses

Love to play and danceBut when its time to go to bed

They would rather prance.

Personification

Definition-when you make a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do.

Example:STARS

Stars, bring me up with youBring me to the place

you sleep.How do you do it?

Bring me to your home.Bring your thoughts

to me.Share them

with me.

By Alex

My poemMy blanket talks to me

When I’m happyShe shows a smile

When I’m madShe tries to relax me

When I’m upsetShe converts me

To do these things It takes strength

And all those fibersAre the strength thatHold me and it’s self

TOGETHER

Repetition

• Definition- when you have a word you use more than once.

The Lock The lock

in my heartholds memories,

of love,joy, hate,

fear, family,and death.

The key in my heart,

is sadness andcaring.

My dream--I have no dream.I live in a dream. By Ronnie

My Poem

Riding horseI fell the breeze

Riding horseIt is peacefulRiding horse

Makes me feel happyRiding horse

Teaches me knew thingsRiding horse

Makes me feel alive!

Onomatopoeia

Definition-are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make.

Example:Cafeteria

Boom!Went the food

trays. Clap! Clap!

Goes the teacher.Rip!

Went the plastic bag.

Munch! Munch!Go the students.

Slurp!!!Went the straws.

WhisperIs what half the kids

in the roomare doing.Crunch! Crunch!

gothe candy bars.

By: Rachael

My PoemBuzz!Buzz!

There it goes againBuzz!

There is no endBuzz!

Is what I sayShe just turns around and walks away

Buzz!I hear it again

Dad gets confused as I laugh againBuzz! I imitate one last time,

And she never got caught,But I’ll get her next time!

Paradox

• Definition- a statement that seems impossible at first but actually makes sense.

Example: Dark and light

Dark remembers light,The day they separated,

They try to be friends, butcan't.

Dark doesn't like light Their friendship no longer

exists. By Alex

My PoemLaughing is exercise

Why?How?

Someone could askWell it doesn’t make since

To a lot of P.E teachersBut the reality is true

When you laugh You work your abs

And working your abs Is a form of exercise

So it comes back to the questionIs laughing exercise?

Metaphor

Definition- Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another.

Example:I AM A SWORD

I am a sword,Sharper than a tongueNobody can defeat me,Because I am a sword,

I can not be hurt by what people say

About me, I will not show my anger

AgainstSomeone else.

By Alex

My PoemI am an eraser

My life is full of mistakes,But why

Why do I try to fix them,My mistakes, because I hate them?

So when I make one Does that mean

I erase itYes?No?

I don’t know,But I do know that

I ….I am an eraser

Imagery

Definition-refers to the descriptive elements of a poem or to the visual

idea presented to the reader through the poem.

Example:

Pink petals passingScents above so high

Painted porcelain perfectionBlossoms caress the sky

Swaying silent shroudSuitors strolling byPink petals passingLover's gentle sigh

Pastel hues fallingSlow fluttering gracePink petals passing

Lining streams in lace

Pink petals passingSmoothest transit bySoft essence floatingIn most subtle lullaby

Inducing springtime slumberUpon a satin shore

Sailing with the currentPink petals pass before

(1999)

Mary Fumento

My poemThe sound

I hear it from a long way The throbbing and thumping

Of hooves I hear themIt’s beautifulThe sound

The rhythm flows like a riverIt is a graceful beat

I hear it and it’s nearMy dreams

My liveIt’s what I live for

Symbolism

Definition- the subject stands for something else that has a greater meaning

Example: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference

My PoemAs we roam

Across the hilly landThe freedom

As the breeze blowsMy heart beats faster

The longing stride of my horseAs she runs,

Runs up the steep, beautiful, hillShe is me, I am her

We Are one

Mood

Definition-feeling or atmosphere of a piece.

A Dream by: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed—

But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream—that holy dream,While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar—

What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day star?

My PoemIt was his timeHe has gone

To God’s homeWhere God will take care of him

All of his sin’s are forgivenThey are in God’s handsThe sorrow is horrifying

Everything is darkThis sets the mood

And he will be rememberedThe day is glom,

But I know he was alwaysLOVED!