Poetry Elements and Types of Poems

A poem is divided into what?

• sentences

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• passages

____________________ is a poem that tells as story.

• Narrative poem

• Ode

• Sonnet

• Lyric poem

A long lyric poem that celebrates something, someone, or some event in life is called an

• ode

• sonnet

• octave

• free verse

The point at which a line of poetry ends

• refrain

• line break

• stanza

• period

When a line or lines are repeated in a poem or song it is called the

• refrain

• lyric

• tune

• melody

True or False There are many different types of poems

• True

• False

Poetry that has no fixed meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement is called

• end rhyme

• middle rhyme

• metaphor

• free verse

A _______ uses like or as to compare two unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

A _______ compares or equates two different things and does not use like or as in the comparison

• simile

• metaphor

• extended metaphor

• personification

A metaphor in which the comparison is carried through several lines or even the entire poem is called an ____.

• extended metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile