Elements of Poetry

A type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect

• poetry

• prose

• drama

• simile

the way a poem is laid out on the page

• verse

• form

• rhyme

• scheme

the place where a line ends

• line break

• chapter

• stanza

• rhythm

Just as a story has a narrator, a poem has a

• narrator

• speaker

• title

• plot

a group of lines in a poem

• phrase

• sentence

• paragraph

• stanza

This little song often of love must have 14 lines and follows a pattern of rhyme in each stanza.

• haiku

• limerick

• sonnet

• parable

Poems that do not follow any pattern or rules are called...

• garbage

• bad poems

• free verse

• unstable

This type of Japanese poem includes three lines with syllable counts of 5, 7 and 5.

• limerick

• sonnet

• narrative

• haiku

This poem has five lines and follows a rhyme scheme of AABBA. Lines 1, 2 and 5 also share a syllable count as do lines 3 and 4. They often begin with, "There once was a..."

• haiku

• sonnet

• narrative

• limerick

This type of poem tells a story.

• sonnet

• haiku

• narrative

• free verse