Brown's Poetry Elements Practice

What is poetry?

• literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by using distinctive style and rhythm

• a form of language that uses natural speech and grammatical structures (novels and newspapers are examples)

• a sequence of events in a file, novel, or story

• any struggle between opposing forces that drives a story

What is structure in poetry?

• a group of lines of poetry

• a single line of poetry

• how a poem is presented

• repetition of sounds at the ends of words

How is a poem structured?

• lines, stanzas, rhythm, and meter

• sentences, paragraphs, main idea

• bricks, mortar, steel

• character, conflict, cause & effect

Which of these poetic elements deals with the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

• alliteration

• repetition

• rhyme

• imagery

Breathe the scent of nice fresh air

Feel the breeze within your hair

...is an example of what?

• rhyme

• imagery

• alliteration

• repetition

Define imagery...

• words or phrases that appeal to the senses

• creating pictures in the mind using metaphors and similes

• a way of writing that helps a reader fully experience a poem

• all of these

My fingers fly across the board

Lightening fast and neat

The words an extension of my brain

Oh, how can I compete?

...is an example of?

• imagery

• alliteration

• repetition

• line break

Alliteration is...

• words or phrases that appeal to one or more senses

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds

• a group of lines of poetry

• repetition of sounds at the ends of words

Fast fingers fly forward across the keyboard

...is an example of?

• alliteration

• repetition

• mood

• tone

Repetition is...

• the repeated use of any element of language - sounds, words, or phrases - in writing

• repetition of sounds at the ends of words

• words or phrases that appeal to the senses

• where a line of poetry ends