Poetry and Prose Elements
Poetry Specific Elements
Conventional Forms
Poems Studied
100

If you are feeling a certain mood about a text, it surely is because of the author's this

Tone

100

A common stylistic element in poetry.  An example would be:

The things I love to eat are green / 

I ate a frog, it kicked my spleen!

Rhyme
100

The most common/famous form of poetry.  Popular ones are Italian or English types

Sonnets

100

Shakespeare's most famous sonnet.  The speaker talks about how his love is better than a part of a season

Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day

200

This element of style is captured by concrete details referring to the five senses

Imagery

200

Dogs are out! Count the feet and you'll find out what type of this stylistic element the poet has chosen

Meter

200

Dylan Thomas's famous poem, which we studied, is this form

Villanelle

200

The speaker of this poem has some major trust issues going on

Promises Like Pie-Crust

300

There are many elements that can be considered figurative language including personification.  What is the definition of personification?

Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing

300

Poetic Syntax mostly deals with these two elements

Enjambment and Caesura

300

A contemplative poem, usually for someone who has died

Elegy

300

This poem could be about the death of Diego Ultreras

To An Athlete Dying Young

400

We studied diction in To An Athlete Dying Young.  Specifically, we looked at the multiple denotations of this word, that Housman used to create a paradoxical statement

Laurel...Smart lad!

400

You can tell a lot about the meaning of the poem by figuring out if it has traditional or conventional this

Form

400

A short poem expressing personal thoughts or feelings of a first-person speaker

Lyric

400

Name all three Harry Baker poems from his TED Talk

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-Paper People

-The Sunshine Kid

500

In syntax, if a sentence is not cumulative (beginning with an independent clause and followed by a subordinate clause), then it is this

Periodic (beginning with a subordinate clause that builds towards the main clause)

500

This element that refers to the musical quality of poetry can be created through rhyme, alliteration, and many other techniques.

Sound

500

This occurs in the last line of a Haiku, or in the third quatrain of an English Sonnet

The turn

500

The author of the Albert.io poem that was assigned titled, "Man and Camel"

Mark Strand

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