Questions: What is a stanza?
a group of lines
a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
words that appeal to the senses
words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
Transcript text: What is a stanza?
a group of lines
a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
words that appeal to the senses
words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
Solution
Answer
The answer is a group of lines.
Explanation
Option 1: A group of lines
A stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, often set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, though they are not required to.
Option 2: A pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
This describes a rhyme scheme, not a stanza. A rhyme scheme is the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.
Option 3: Words that appeal to the senses
This describes imagery, which is the use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to the work and appeal to the senses.
Option 4: Words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
This describes meter, which is the rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. It is the pattern of the beats, or the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.