Elements of Poetry
Cards (53)
- branches of poetry
- poem that reflects death
- lyric adapted for singing
- commemorates events or praises people; exalted styles
- based on rural settings
- consists of 14 lines with iambic pentameter
- poem that expresses personal thoughts and feelings
- poem that tells a story
- narrative poem which depicts ordinary people
- narrative poem which depicts adventures of a hero
- poems intended to be presented on stage
- poem that is light and humerous; happy endings
- poem that is exaggerated comedy
- poem with highly sensualized events accompanied with music
- poem that addresses an absent listener
- poem that presents the downfall of a dignified character
- an arrangement of lines in which form and content fuse to suggest meanings beyond literal, re-creates emotions and experiences, precise and profound words, compressed and suggestive, imagination
- principle of arrangement
- uses a conventional stanza pattern and defined rhyme scheme
- not defined by any traditional poetic structure
- physical arrangement of words
- the end of line is the end of thought
- the thought continues to into the next line or further
- conveys a particular set of ideas
- 2 lines
- 3 lines
- 4 lines
- 5 lines

- 6 lines
- 8 lines
- 14 lines
- the musical quality of a poem
- the use of words/phrases more than once for emphasis
- repetition of similar sounds at the end of words
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- similar sounds at the end of each line
- similar sounds at the beginning/within each line
- poet's attitude toward their subject
- voice of the poem
- words that appeals to the 5 senses