poetic elements
Meter, rhyme, imagery
Poetic elements are the building blocks writers use to create verse: meter, rhyme, imagery, metaphor, alliteration, and the like.
The term appears most often in educational contexts where students learn to identify and analyze these features in poems.
The teacher asked us to highlight the poetic elements in the sonnet.
Writers of prose may also employ poetic elements to add rhythm or emotional resonance to their work.
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- alliterationMatching initial consonants
- consonanceHarmonious sound combination
- echoReflected sound wave
hush · mood · sigh · meter · quatrain · heroic couplet · caesura · simile · metaphor · extended metaphor · enjambment · anaphora · euphony · personification · volta · free verse · sonnet · blank verse
poetic elementsprose style
Writer's characteristic expression
expository writing · narrative prose · plain language · narrative devices · journalistic writing
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