According to the table, we can say that the characteristic stanza belongs to poetry, the characteristic paragraphs belong to prose, and the characteristic themes and figurative language belong to both.
What are prose and poetry?
- They are literary genres.
- They are different types of texts.
The theme is the main subject of a text and figures of speech are ways of highlighting concepts through different words, which highlight meanings that are unusual in the usual way of using them. These two elements can appear in any type of text, however, stanzas are specific characteristics of poetry, while paragraphs are only seen in prose.