Poetry, Prose, or Drama?
Poetry, Prose, or Drama?
Elements of Poetry
Figurative Language
Elements of Literature
100

Describes feelings and ideas or tell stories using rhythm and often rhyme.

A. Poetry      B. Prose      C. Drama


A. Poetry

100

Tells a story through a narrator who describes events

Canbe all three

100

Same ending sounds

Rhyme/ Rhyming Words

100

The repetition of an initial consonant sound in words that are in close proximity to each other.

Alliteration 

100

The people and animals that are in a story.

Characters

200

Organized using lines and stanzas

A. Poetry      B. Prose      C. Drama

A.  Poetry

200

Dialogue (speaking) by characters are in quotation marks. 

Prose (story)

200

A group of lines that are grouped together in a poem

Stanza

200

A word that sounds like the noise it describes

Onomatopoeia 

200

Where and when a story takes place

Setting

300

Contains stage directions

A. Poetry      B. Prose      C. Drama

C. Drama (Plays)

300

Contains a Cast of Characters

Drama (plays)

300

The feeling that the author has towards his/her topic

Tone

300

To give human qualities to characteristics to an animal or object.

Personifaction

300

What the characters say;

When characters speak

Dialogue

400

Tells a story through dialogue and actions performed by actors

A. Poetry      B. Prose      C. Drama

C. Drama (Plays)

400

Organized using paragraphs and chapters

Prose (story)

400

The lesson, moral, or message

Theme

400

Language that describes how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.

Imagery

400

Who is telling the story?

1st- a character inside the story

3rd a character outside the story

Point of View

500

Uses rhyming words most of the time, but not all of the time

A. Poetry      B. Prose      C. Drama

A. Poetry

500

Language creates meter, rhythm, and rhyme

Poetry

500

To repeat the same word over and over

Repetition

500

Comparing two or more things using the words "like" or "as"

Simile

500

The feelings the author creates or the feeling you get when you read the story

Mood