Question

So I’m doing my reading homework and I need help with this question,Identify characteristics of the texts that make them poems.

Answer 1

1. Imaginative
2. Creative
3. Descriptive and vivid language that often has an economical or condensed use of words chosen for their sound and meaning
4. Meaning is enhanced by recalling memories of related experiences in the reader or listener
5. Provokes thought
6. Causes an emotional response: laughter, happy, sad …
7. Uses figurative language (personification, similies, methaphors...)
8. Imagery where the reader/listener creates vivid mental images
9. Often has rhythm and rhyme
10. Often includes words and phrases that have a pattern made with rhythm and rhyme.
11. Story in verse
12. Can have physical and grammatical arrangement of words usually enhance the reader's overall experience