Identify Elements of Poetry

A ____ in a poem is the equivalent of a paragraph in a story.

What do you call a stanza of four lines?

• A couplet

• A sestet

• A tercet

• A quatrain

___ describes how the speaker's voice sounds.

• attitude

• auditory imagery

• mood

• tone

The word choice in a poem is known as ____

• figures of speech

• diction

• figurative languages

• imagery

There are two types of rhyme in a poem; end of line and internal

• True

• False

The pattern that rhyme creates in a poem is called the ___

Identify the rhyme pattern in the poem above.

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• AABBB

• AABBA

• ABABA

• ABABB

The pace and beat in a poem is called the _____

When the poet uses language that appeals to the reader's senses, he uses _____

• dialogue

• diction

• figurative devices

• imagery

The person who writes poems is ____

• an author

• the speaker

• the poet

• the narrator