Elements of Poetry

The central or main idea of the poem is...

• Form
• Imagery
• Theme

The feelings the author's word choices give to the poem is...

• Form
• Mood/tone
• Rhyme

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying emotion through ________.

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

The ___ of the poem made me feel happy.

• Form
• Mood/tone
• Verse

Which tone is represented in the following passage?
Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly!

• Calm
• Annoyed
• Scary
• Excited

Tone can best described as

• attitude of the reader
• the overall mood or feeling in a story
• the words an author chooses to use
• reader's point of view

A group of lines in a poem are...

• Form
• Stanza
• Verse

Instead of a paragraph, in poetry we call the chunks...

• stanzas
• sections
• staza
• stan

Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind is...

• Imagery
• Theme
• Rhyme

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood