What is Poetry?
12th Grade · ELA · 45 min
Lesson Preview
Learning Objective
I can define poetry and identify its key characteristics.
- 1
The writer of a poem is called a poet, and the voice narrating the poem is called the speaker.
- 2
Poems are written in lines, and where a line ends is called a line break; groups of lines are called stanzas.
- 3
Poems may or may not rhyme, and they can be about everything or nothing at all.
