Poetry Elements

group of lines of a poem arranged together (like a paragraph)

• stanza

• line

• rhythm

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

The beat created by the sound of the words in the poem.

• mood

• rhythm or meter

• rhyme scheme

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

pattern of rhyming words or sounds (uses letters to label lines that rhyme: ABAB, AABB)

• repetition

• poet

• rhyme scheme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

word at the end of one line rhymes with word at the end of another line

• line

• mood

• rhyme scheme

• end rhyme or when words rhyme at the end of a line.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

the narrator of the poem (not the same as the poet)

• metaphor

• mood

• end rhyme

• speaker

a person who writes poems

• tone

• poet

• narrative poem

• alliteration

The feeling the author is trying to convey or tell in the poem.

• end rhyme or when words rhyme at the end of a line

• repetition

• mood

• speaker

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• simile

• poet

• metaphor

• speaker

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

A comparison WITHOUT using like or as

• simile

• mood

• metaphor

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is internal rhyme?

• mental pictures described in a poem

• two or more rhyming words found in the same line

• comparing things in a poem

• a group of lines in a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5