Poetry Elements

Poetry is usually arranged in ________________.

A group of lines is called a _______________________.

Poems may have a regular _________________, which is the repetition of similar sounds.

A _____________ _______________ is the pattern formed by the end of the rhymes.

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables gives a line of poetry a predictable __________, or pattern of beats.

What is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words or syllables?

What uses words that imitate or suggest the sound of what they describe, such as hiss and thud?

Poets use _______________, or language that appeals to the senses, to help readers visualize what they read.

What communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of words?

What uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things?