Elements of Poem and Prose

People or animals in the story

• stanza

• characters

• meter

• Point of view

What the characters say

• Dialogue

• Point of view

• rhyme

• mood

The beat or rhythm of a poem

• plot

• setting

• line

• meter

The author’s message or lesson

• main idea

• mood

• stanza

• theme

Words that have the same ending sounds

• point of view

• rhyme

• repetition

• mood

Repeated words or phrases

• repetition

• rhyme

• setting

• theme

When and where a story takes place

• dialogue

• line

• plot

• setting

The feeling the author is trying to convey

• theme

• mood

• meter

• point of view

A group of lines together

• paragraph

• sentence

• line

• stanza

What happens in the story

• theme

• plot

• mood

• setting