Poetic Elements & Types of Poetry

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.

Personification.

Repetition.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by stating one is the other.

The classroom was a zoo.

A type of poetry that has no real rhyme or pattern.

A poetic device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things.

A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

The moon was like a ghostly ship sailing through the night.

The repetition of similar sounds, usually at the end of lines.