Unit 8 | Elements of Poetry

What is poetry?

• repetition of the same or very similar sounds in words that are close together

• rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination

  
  

• repetition of  accented sounds and all sounds that follow them

  
  

• monotone language that uses grammar and plot to inspire to imagery and inference

  
  

A _________ is the voice talking to us in the poem.

• line

• mood

• tone

• speaker

Sometimes the speaker is identical to the _____, but often the speaker and the poet are not the same.  They may speak as a child, an animal, or even an object.

• prose

• poet

• language

• poem

• A _____ is a word or row that may or may not form a complete sentence.

• rhyme

• stanza

• line

• fragment

• A ________ is a group of lines that form a unit.

• stanza

• line group

• line scheme

• verse group

Words or an expression not to be taken literally

• free verse

• figurative language

• figure of speech

• limerick

Rhyme scheme is ....

• repetition of  accented sound

• the permanent pattern of vowel sounds at alternating lines in a poem

  
  

• the lack of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem

  
  

• the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem

  
  

The repetition of accented sounds and all sounds that follow them

• rhythm

• rhyme

• rap

• line scheme

An end rhyme is the rhymes at the end of a line

• True

• False

the repetition of the same or very similar sounds in words that are close together

• lyric

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

• hyperbole