Poems Plays Prose

Describes feelings and ideas or tells stories using rhythm and often rhyme

• Poem

• Play

• Prose

Tells a story through dialogue and actions performed by actors

• Poem

• Play

• Prose

A story or novel

• Poem

• Play

• Prose

Verses, also called lines

• Poem

• Play

• Prose

Prose is.......

• a specific mode of fictions represented in performance

• every day writing that exhibit a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech

• creating word pictures, describes mometns, or expresses feelings

Which of the following is NOT a structural element of poetry? (a)  

• Written in stanzas

• Follows all the correct grammar rules

• Uses words for their sound

• Can have rhythm and meter

Lines arranged in groups called stanzas is an element of which form of literature?

• poetry

• prose

• drama

Why might an author choose poetry rather than prose?

• the author wants the reader to act and say the lines

• the author wants to use rhyming words in paragraphs to describe objects

• the author uses fewer words, that may include sound, to express their ideas, which can be read aloud and made into a song

• the author wants to describe in detail with many words their story, which can only be read out loud

Prose has paragraphs while poetry has....?

• setting

• characters

• fiction

• verses

What is the biggest difference between poetry and prose?

• Poetry rhymes all the time.

• Poetry is written in lines and stanzas.

• Poetry does not have rules.

• Poetry tells a story.