Elements of Poetry

What is a stanza?

• group of lines in a story

• group of lines in science fiction

• group of lines in a poem

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End Rhyme is________________

• Words that rhyme inside every stanza

• Every first word in the line sounds the same

• lines that end with the same sound

When a poem has Rhythm it means:

• a musical quality or beat

• people in the poem can dance

• the poem can be turned into a song

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In Poetry-What is repetition?

• to repeat every word three times in a row

• to repeat words that have vowels

• to repeat sounds, words, or phrases

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In Poetry-What is Mood/Tone?

• when the narrator of the poem has a bad attitude

• characters shift and change

• feeling the reader gets from reading the poem

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In Poetry-What is Symbolism?

• when a poem has a symbol in the title

• hidden ideas in the poem

• when something represents or stands for something else

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Alliteration in Poetry is:

• repeating ending sounds

• repeating beginning sounds

• repeating middle sounds

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In Poetry: Voice or POV is... (think about Tyler Williams in Everybody Hates Chris)

• the narrator, what you know about the narrator

• the character, you're trying to find out more about

• the protagonist/antagonist

In Poetry Assonance is:

• words with "A" that rhyme

• words that have no rhyme but have rhythm

• words that have the same middle sound

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Roses are red

Violets are blue

Chocolate is sweet

and so are you.

A, B, C, B----this is called?

• Rhyme Sequence

• Rhyme and Reason

• Rhyme Scheme

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