Exploring the Elements of Poetry

What should you write at the top of your Cornell notes page?

• The name of your teacher

• Your name, class, period, and date

• The title of the video

• Your favorite poem

According to Robert Frost, what is poetry?

• An echo asking a shadow to dance

• A deal of joy and pain and wonder with a dash of the dictionary

• An emotion finding its thought and the thought finding words

• The rhythmical creation of beauty in words

What is the first element of poetry discussed in the video?

• Form

• Sound devices

• Imagery

• Speaker

Which type of stanza consists of four lines?

• Haiku

• Couplet

• Limerick

• Quatrain

What is a poem with no regular pattern called?

• Haiku

• Free verse

• Limerick

• Ballad

What is the term for repeating similar sounds at the ends of lines in poetry?

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Rhyme

Which sound device involves repeating the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme

What is the role of the speaker in a poem?

• The person who writes the poem

• The person who reads the poem aloud

• The person whose voice we hear in the poem

• The person who critiques the poem

What does imagery in poetry appeal to?

• The reader's emotions

• The reader's five senses

• The reader's memory

• The reader's logic

Which of the following is NOT a figurative language device?

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole