Elements of Poetry

What is a stanza in poetry?

• A stanza is a single sentence in a poem, which may be contained within a single line or continue onto another line.

• A stanza is a set of two rhymed lines in a poem.

• A stanza is a group of lines in a poem, set off from other stanzas or groups of lines with blank spaces or indentation.

• A stanza is the final four lines of a poem, which reveal the poet’s primary attitude toward the topic.

What is consonance?

• The repetition of words or phrases in a poem

• The repetition of consonant sounds in a line

• The repetition of any letter sound in a line

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a line

The kind of sensory detail that an onomatopoeia provides is____

• smell

• touch

• sound

• sight

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Which best describes end rhyme in a poem?

• none of these

• when words in a poem sound the same

• when endings of lines in a poem sound the same

• when words in a poem repeat from line to line

Repeated words and sounds in a poem create ______.

• rhythm

• stanzas

• rhyme

• none of these

Which best describes a stanza?

• the author of the poem

• a group of lines that make up a section of the poem

• the subject of the poem

• the similarity of two or more words

The image is an example of what element of poetry?

• rhythm

• rhyme

• stanza

• meter

_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.

• metaphor

• mood

• tone

• imagery

The author's attitude or feelings towards the writing is the ___

• tone

• meter

• rhythm

• epic

The effect of using onomatopoeia in writing is___

• to distract the reader with a word that has no meaning

• to add a sensory detail based on touch

• to add a sensory detail based on sound

• to contrast two different objects