1. Free-Verse Poetry
Ms. Delgado and Mr. Gonzalez
7th grade
English Class

2. What is Free-Verse?
◊ Definition: Verse composed of
variable, usually unrhymed lines having
no fixed metrical pattern.

3. Elements of Free-Verse
◊ Assonance
◊ Alliteration ◊ Personification
◊ Parallel Structure ◊ Simile
◊ Imagery ◊ Fragments
◊ Onomatopoeia ◊ Rhythmic Language
◊ Cadence ◊ And more…..

4. Alliteration
◊ The repetition of the same sounds or of
the same kinds of sounds at the
beginning of words or in stressed
syllables
• “ rough roundness”
• “the smooth skaterly and sudden swerve”

5. Imagery
◊ The use of vivid or figurative language
to represent objects, actions, or ideas
◊ Using sensory language to create
mental images
• “The sideways slip through a moment of
narrow space”
• “The taste for the rock in your hands…”

6. Simile
◊ A figure of speech that uses like or as
to make a direct comparison between
two unlike ideas.
• “The ball like a piece of long thin long reach
of your body.”

7. Personification
◊ A type of figurative language in which a
non-human subject is given human
characteristics.
• “The way it answers whenever it calls.

8. Fragments
◊ An incomplete idea; sentence.
• “The cool
• The into the under the up”

9. Rhythmic Language
◊ Pattern of beats or stressed in spoken
or written language.
• “like tides going in, going out”