Poetry, Prose, and Drama

a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination.

• stanza

• drama

• poetry

• prose

instructions for actors and stage crew, usually set in Italics

• poetry

• verse

• dialogue

• stage directions

a single line of poetry

• rhythm

• stanza

• verse

• characters

any writing that is NOT poetry

• prose

• drama

• dialogue

• poetry

conversation between two or more characters

• characters

• setting

• dialogue

• plot

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• setting

• rhythm

• characters

• dialogue

a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• meter

• stanza

• poem

• drama

a fixed number of lines or verse forming a unit of a poem

• plot

• stanza

• character

• setting

people in the story

• setting

• plot

• conflict

• characters

Where and when the story takes place

• setting

• dialogue

• title

• stage directions