Elements of Poetry
Plot
Vocabulary
Point-of-View
Vocabulary 2
100
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
These are two terms that are used to describe the beginning of a story.
What are exposition and introduction?
100
This gives me the "gist" of a story and must include elements of the beginning, middle, and end.
What is a summary?
100
This point of view used pronouns like "you" and "your."
What is second person point of view?
100
This is what a story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
200
This is a line that is repeated throughout a poem.
What is a refrain?
200
This part of the story is the most exciting.
What is the climax?
200
This is commonly used in fairy tales and groups characters or problems into threes.
What is the rule of three?
200
This point of view is used when the narrator shares their own thoughts and feelings, allowing the reader to see the story directly through the eyes of that character.
What is first person point of view?
200
This is the lesson or message the reader can learn from a story.
What is the theme?
300
This is when a beginning sound is repeated in several words.
What is alliteration?
300
In this part of a story, the problem is solved.
What is the falling action?
300
This is a supernatural power that helps the hero or main character in a story along their journey.
What is a magic helper?
300
These are the pronouns used in first person point of view.
What are "I," "me," "we," "us," etc.?
300
These are used in a drama to describe what characters are doing.
What are stage directions?
400
This is an exaggeration of the truth used to emphasize the poet's point.
What is hyperbole?
400
This is another word for the resolution.
What is the denouement?
400
This is the purpose of imagery.
What is to help the reader visualize or picture what the author is describing?
400
This point of view shares the thoughts and feelings of only one character and uses pronouns like "he" "she" or "they."
What is third person limited?
400
open:closed::high: ________
What is low?
500
This is when a word imitates the sound that is being made.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is another word for the climax of a story?
What is the denouement?
500
This is the definition of "convey."
What is to tell or to communicate?
500
This is the definition for third person omniscient.
What is a point of view that shares the thoughts and feelings of several characters?
500
These are two characteristics unique to poetry.
What are rhyming and stanzas?
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