Poetry Vocabulary

What is a line?

• The rhythm to a poem

• A single row in a poem

• Words that sound similar

What are the elements of a poem?

• Stanzas

• Meter and Rhythm

• Lines

• Theme and Mood

• Stage Directions

A line is one (a)   in a poem.

What is rhythm?

• The beat, feel, and sound of a poem.

• The feeling of a poem

• 2 or more lines together

What is meter?

• The number of lines in a poem.

• The lesson of a poem.

• Words that sound the same or similar in their endings.

• The number of syllables and the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhyme is words that sound (a)   or the same in their endings.

Theme is:

• the main lesson in the poem

• the feeling of the poem

• the setting

The mood is the (a)   of the poem.

A stanza can only have two lines in it.

• True

• False