Elements of Poetry

select 3 different types of figurative language

• simile

• metaphor

• word choice

• alliteration

• ideas and content

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

The rhyme scheme is the

• units of stressed syllables at the end of the lines

• nonrhyming stanzas at the end of the lines

• measures of stressed and unstressed syllables at the end of the lines

• pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

Several lines grouped together in a poem

• line

• stanza

• poetry

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

The lesson or moral of the story/ poem.

• Thought

• Tone

• Theme

• Melody

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

A pattern that the author created on purpose at the end of lines

ABAB AABB

• Speaker

• Rhyme Scheme

• Hyberbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is tone?

• The poet's attitude toward his or her subject.
• The feeling a reader gets when reading the poem.
• the pitch of the rhythm
• the sounds of a poem

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

A group of lines within a poem is called a

• paragraph

• sentence

• stanza

• party of words

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

A word that imitates the sound of what it describes is called...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

How many lines/verses are in each stanza?2

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.5