ELEMENTS OF POETRY

A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole or a part of a word

• syllable

• meter

• rhythm

• stanza

A group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem or verse.

• rhyme

• rhythm

• stanza

• syllable

A correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

• rhythm

• rhyme

• figurative language

• imagery

The use of vivid words that appeal to the five senses in order to deepen the reader’s understanding of the text.

• figurative language

• syllable

• stanza

• imagery

Unstressed + stressed (two syllables)

• trochee

• iamb

• spondee

• anapest

stressed + 2 unstressed (three syllables)

• dactyl

• anapest

• trochee

• spondee

Stressed + stressed (two syllables)

• anapest

• spondee

• dactyl

• iamb

2 unstressed + stressed (three syllables)

• anapest

• trochee

• spondee

• dactyl

as a continuation of rhyme, it is also one of the basic elements of poetry.

• rhyme scheme

• rhyme

• rhythm

• imagery

This is what the poem is all about.

• imagery

• figurative language

• syllable

• theme