Elements of poetry

Elements of Poetry

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stanza

A group of lines in a poem. Similar to paragraphs in a story.

How many stanzas does this poem have?

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas does this poem have?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Rhyme

Words that have the same ending sound.

Do you see any other rhyming words in this poem?

Multiple Choice

Which words rhyme?

• gadgets & rings

• rings & things

• gadgets & numbers

• numbers & things

Repetititon

Words or phrases that are repeated in the poem.

Multiple Choice

True or False: This poem has repetition?

• True

• False

Analyzing a poem

What is the poem about?

Let's Read this poem

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Multiple Choice

How many stanzas does the poem have?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Fill in the Blank

The poem has _____ lines.

Multiple Choice

What word is repeated in the poem?

• neigh

• moo

• no

• animals

Multiple Choice

True or False: The poem has rhyme

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is the poem about?

• A farmer and the visitors

• A farm where the animals are making the wrong noises

• Playing baseball on a farm

• A school visit to a dairy farm.

Multiple Choice

The rhyme scheme is the

• units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

• nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

• measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines

• pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

Multiple Choice

Lines are grouped in

• stanzas

• alphabetical order

• random order

• segments

Multiple Choice

What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem?

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Roses are red,

We have the flu.

I can't smell anything

And neither can you

• A, C, A, B

• A, B, C, B

• A, B, C, C

• A, B, A, B

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

• AABB
• ABAB
• ABCB

Multiple Choice

Which poem matches the rhyme scheme ABBA

• I stubbed my toe

  It hurts a whole bunch

  I wish I had handfuls

  Of pizza to munch

• Roses are red

  Violets are blue

  Wait, they're blue?

  Shouldn't they be violet?

• I just saw a cow

  He wore bright green pants

  And did a fun dance

  My one thought was "Wow"

Multiple Choice

For a word to rhyme, which part of the words have to sound the same?

• The middle

• The end

• The beginning

• Any part

Multiple Choice

Rhyme is _______.

• repeating a letter

• repeating a word or phrase

• repeating punctuation

• repeating an ending sound in words

Multiple Choice

In Poetry-What is Mood/Tone?

• when the narrator of the poem has a bad attitude

• characters shift and change

• feeling the reader gets from reading the poem

Multiple Choice

A poem is divided into what?

• sentences

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• passages

Multiple Choice

_______ is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

• Meter

• Rhyme

• Rhyme scheme

• Assonance

Multiple Choice

Words that end with the same sound.

• simile

• rhyme

• rhythm

Multiple Choice

When the last words in a verse have similar ending sounds

You- Mew Night- right

• Rhyme

• Symbolism

• Stanza

• Theme

Multiple Choice

The life lesson or lesson learned

• Theme

• Stanza

• Rhyme

• Figurative Language

Multiple Choice

A pattern that the author created on purpose at the end of lines

ABAB AABB

• Speaker

• Rhyme Scheme

• Hyberbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

The author of the poem

• Poet

• Poetry

• Metaphor

• Author

Multiple Choice

What is a Stanza?

• A grouping of two or more lines that go together

• A picture in a poem

• Rhyming words

• A form of poetry

Multiple Choice

Poetry always have to rhyme.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The central or main idea of a poem is -

• Theme
• Idiom
• Sensory Language
• Rhyme Scheme

Multiple Choice

Specific words the poet uses to create images in the poem.

• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Symbol

Multiple Choice

A feeling the poem creates in the reader is the -

• Mood
• Lines
• Stanzas
• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

How many stanzas are in the following poem? -

The Pasture

BY ROBERT FROST

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother. It's so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

Multiple Choice

How many lines are in the following poem? -

The Pasture

BY ROBERT FROST

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;

I'll only stop to rake the leaves away

(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf

That's standing by the mother. It's so young,

It totters when she licks it with her tongue.

I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

• Four

• Sixteen

• Twelve

• Eight

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of rhyming words?

• Cat and Tiger

• Night and Bright

• Light and Dark

• Up and Down

Open Ended

Give examples of rhyming words.