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any1 know the 9 features of poetry please
what do you mean with features? If you mean poetic devices:
rhyme, metre, assonance, alliteration, personification, onomatopeia, tone, apostrophe, oxymoron, simile, etc.
try googling for poetic devices to find out more.
- Cliché - it is impossible to write anything completely new anymore, so all poems will have examples of cliché.
- Angst - Every good poet is depressed, which always shows up in his/her work.
- Syzygy - every poem has errors in construction that result in combining two feet into a single metrical unit.
- Logorrhea - No poet can write a short poem. Poets find it impossible to stop and become increasingly enchanted with seeing their own words once they get on a roll.
- Sesquipedality - Unless the poet sends you off to the dictionary several times per poem, life becomes too depressing.
- Misdirection - No one can call a cloud a cloud anymore. Poets all use one or more kinds of secret codes to keep you from following their meanings. Examples are those mentioned by Desi - simile, metaphor, synesthesia & metonymy. Or is it metomyny? I forget.
- Abracadabry - Magical incantations to prevent the reader from knowing what the poet is talking about.
- Flimflammery - Swindling readers from guessing a poem's drift. Those who may not have already been so distracted, that is.
- Gobbledygook - Jargon known only to those familiar with the devices listed above.
Hope this helps!
- Angst - Every good poet is depressed, which always shows up in his/her work.
Here is one possible answer Caren:
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Les
I assumed the assigment was taken directly out of a particular textbook, since the question has no definite answer that I have ever heard of. There are no exactly nine features of poetry, I mean. Surely the correct answer(s) are to be found there?
If forced to respond, I would say there is only one 'feature' of poetry - it uses the line (as opposed to sentences that we see in prose). Other things, such as rhythm, sound, imagery and such literary devices do not appear in 100% of those works we can agree upon as 'poetry'.
No question, but that the 9 features are those which Caren's instructor had given them in class.
Les
Hugh, oh! My goodness, that is soooooooooooooooo funny! Thanks for sharing the 9 jokes! I can't believe that 
do any of you guys know how to form a tpcastt. if so could you please help me. Because my english isn't that good at explaining anything and i would really like it if you guys could help me out.
Copied from a Google search for tpcastt:
T: Title
What does the title mean literally? Complete this before reading the poem.
P: Paraphrase
After reading the poem, what does it mean literally in your own words? (This can be very difficult when a poem has abstract meaning.)
C: Connotation
What does the poem mean beyond the literal?
A: Attitude
What is the feeling(s) expressed by the author?
S: Shifts
Changes in speakers and attitudes in the poem.
T: Title Interpreted
What does the title mean beyond the literal?
T: Theme
What is the poet saying?