Elements of Poetry

Descriptive or figurative language in writing where the author uses words that appeal to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• rhyme
• poem
• simile
• imagery

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A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• personification
• poem
• metaphor
• simile

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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• imagery

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When words have ending sounds that correspond to one another
Example:  cat and hat

• metaphor
• rhythm
• rhyme
• poem

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A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound

• imagery
• rhythm
• rhyme
• simile

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A group of lines in a poem

• metaphor
• simile
• line
• stanza

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

• stanza

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• foot

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A two line stanza is a

• tercet

• coupler

• terter

• couplet

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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

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Lines are grouped in

• stanzas

• alphabetical order

• random order

• segments

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