Elements of Poetry - and Description of Quality Characteristics

Elements of Poetry

POETRY- has an overall central theme or idea within each poem

Images - the mental pictures the poet creates through language

Diction - the selection of specific words
Form - the arrangement of words, lines, verses, rhymes, and other features.

Cadence - A rhythmic change in the inflection of sounds from words being spoken. Sometimes referred to the flow of words.

Couplet - two lines of verse that rhyme at the end and are thought as one unit

Meter - A rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.

Rhyme - Words that end with similar sounds. Usually at the end of a line of the poem.

Rhyming - Two lines of a poem together with the same rhythm

Rhythm - A pattern created with sounds: hard - soft, long - short, bouncy, quiet - loud, weak - strong .

Stanza - A part of a poem with similar rhythm and rhyme that will usually repeat later in the poem.

Verse - A line of a poem, or a group of lines within a long poem.

Quality Characterisics

Questions to ask to evaluate the quality of poetry

Children like to write poetry because they

Children might not like to write poetry because they

 

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