Elements of Poetry Vocab (2)

The feeling the author is trying to convey.

• Theme

• Mood

• Symbolism

This is what the poem is all about. The central idea/message.

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Theme

A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level.

• Symbolism

• Meter

• Rhyme

Used to help readers understand how things look, feel, smell, taste and sound.

• Stanza

• Repetition

• Imagery

The number of syllables in a line and how they are accented creates the poem's "beat" or rhythm.

• Mood

• Meter

• Line

The repetition of end sounds.

• Stanza

• Repetition

• Rhyme

A group of lines that look like a paragraph.

• Line

• Stanza

• Theme

One line in a poem.

• Symbolism

• Meter

• Line

Words or phrases that are repeated.

• Repetition

• Imagery

• Mood