Basic Elements of Poetry

The attitude of the author towards its subject is called _________.

• Mood

• Tone

• Theme

It is the emotion of feeling conveyed to the readers after reading a poem.

• Mood

• Tone

• Addressee

When something stands for something else ex: tree = life

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Symbolism

• Theme

Similes, metaphors, personification, exaggeration or hyperbole

Poetry is more figurative than literal

• Alliteration

• Figurative Language

• Stanza

• Speaker

When the author repeats the beginning sound of words in a line

Peter Piper Pizza

• Poet

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

A group of lines in a poem

• Alliteration

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Figurative Language

The person narrating the poem

• Narrator

• Author

• Speaker

• Playwright

Imagery is:

• comparison of two unlike things.
• the use of words that mimic sounds.
• an exaggerated statement.
• language that appeals to the senses.

The truth, message or lesson of a poem is called the _______.

• Stanza

• Mood

• Theme

• Rhyme

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False