Latin roots
Text Elements
Text Features
Poetry
Greek Mythology
100

Latin root meaning "to move"

-mot-

100

The words the author chooses 

Diction

100

numbered notes printed at the bottom of the page

footnotes

100

A pattern of rhymes typically at the end of poetic lines

Rhyme Scheme

100

When the speaker asks the Muse for inspiration at the start of the passage 

Invocation to the Muse

200

Latin root meaning "see/look"

-spec-

200

The feelings shown through the text

Mood

200

chart or graph

data

200

Lines that are complete by a punctuation

End Stopped Lines

200

The king of Ithaca and hero of the Odyssey

Odysseus

300

Latin root meaning "mind/spirit"

-psych-

300

the way the words are arranged

Syntax

300

simplified or stylized images

icons and symbols

300

Poems that don't follow any set pattern

Free Verse

300

Herald and messenger to the gods

Hermes

400

Latin root meaning to "hand"

-man-

400

The views of the author 

Perspective

400

words under an image explaining what it is

caption

400

Lines that do not end with a punctuation and proceeds to follow into the next line 

Enjambed Lines

400

A long narrative poem 

Epic

500

Latin root meaning "measure"

-mens-

500

Has a subject and verb but can't stand alone as a sentence

Dependent or Subordinate clause

500

A brief feature on the side of the text

sidebars

500

A 14 line poem that follows the Elizabethian model 

Sonnet

500

Starting the story in the middle of action 

In Medias Res

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