Poetry Elements

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What is the speaker of a poem?

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The speaker of a poem is the voice that narrates the poem, which is not always the author.

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What is a stanza in poetry?

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A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.

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What is a metaphor?

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things by stating one is the other, e.g., 'Her eyes staring back at me were dark pieces of coal.'

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What are the paragraphs of poems called?

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The paragraphs of poems are called stanzas.

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What is rhyme in poetry?

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Rhyme is when two or more words have the same ending sound.

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What is a simile?

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A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as', e.g., 'Her smile was like sunshine.'

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What is personification?

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Personification is a literary device where human qualities are attributed to non-human things, e.g., 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

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What is onomatopoeia?

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Onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the natural sound of a thing, e.g., 'buzz', 'sizzle', or 'bang'.

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What is alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words, e.g., 'She sells sea shells by the sea shore.'

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem, often described using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.