Rhyme

Definition: A Correspondence of sound between the ending of words.


Example:                Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

                              Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

                              All the king's horses and all the king's men

                              Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Significance: Rhyme gives the reader a flow in the poem. It also provides rhythm in the poem. Also, it entertains the reader.

Rhythm

Definition: Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Measured in feet.

Example: 

A chimney, breathing a little smoke.
The sun, I can't see
making a bit of pink
I can't quite see in the blue.
The pink of five tulips
at five P.M. on the day before March first.
                                 -From "February" by James Schuyler



Significance: It is like a "beat" in poetry. When the speaker reads the poem, it gives a flow to the speaker.

Meter

Definition: A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example:        This is a Lambic Pentameter   

....1...............2.................3.....................4......................5 There WAS..|..a TIME..|..when MEAD..|..ow, GROVE,..|..and STREAM, Significance: A meter allows the speaker to read the poem with a rhythm. When the speaker reads the poem, the speaker reads it with a flow.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Sound effects. Using words to spell the sounds of things.

Examples: Boom! Pow! Clank! Whack!

Significance: It entertains the reader with the different sound effects.

Personification

Definition: Giving an object human characteristics/ qualities

Example: The angry cloud roared and threw lightning everywhere.

Significance: It allows you to relate yourself/ your human qualities to the poem. It also entertains the reader.

Imagery

Definition: Using your senses to relate to the piece of writing. ( gusatory, olfactory, visual, auditory, tactile)

Example: The sweet smell of freshly baked apples filled the air.

Significance: It allows you to relate to what you are reading. It entertains the reader. It allows the reader to use their senses.

Simile

Definition: Comparing two things using the words like or as.

Example: He was as fat as a cow

Significance: You can compare things using two different things. It allows your imagination to stretch. It helps you get a better understanding to the word.

Repetition

Definition: Wehn the author restates the main idea to imprint the main idea to the reader. It emphasises on the theme.

Significance: When the author uses repitition, the phrase that is repeated is in you mind. The main idea is embedded in your head. When the author repeats, the author usually wants to get the main idea or theme to the speaker or the reader.

Example:

Im ar sick.
Open a indow.
Im car sick.
Take this pill.
Im car sick.
Rest your eyes.
Im car sick.
Shhh. Be still.
Im car sick.

Drink some ginger ale.

Im car sick.
Can you try to wait?

Im car sick.
Now we're almost there.

I feel better.

Darn! Too late. 

The repetition is the idea of how the person is car sick.

Interpertation

Definition: How a person understands the meaning and theme in a poem.

Significance: It allows us to understand the poem. A poem may have many different meanings. There may be many different interpertations.

Example:           

                   I’ll forgive,
                  It doesn’t matter what you do,
                  You know this love and all I have,
                  Will always be here for you.
                  I’ll forget,
                  Anything you ask me to,
                  If you don’t like when I bring it up,
                  My words I’ll think them through.
                  I’ll love,
                  Even if you don’t want me to,
                  Obsession, call it want you want,
                   But this is the one promise that I’ll always keep for you,

The interpertation of this poem is that in order to love sombody, you must learn how to forgive and forget.

Tone

Definition: The way the author writes the poem. The feelings/ emotion. How the speaker says the poem.

Significance: This makes the poem sound more interesting and alive. This lets the reader know the mood of the poem. It allows the reader to know if the poem's mood is happy, sad , angry, exited, depressing, mournful,etc.

Example:

                             "Because I could not stop for Death –
                                    He kindly stopped for me –
                              The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
                                          And Immortality."                                        

                                                                - Emily Dickinson
This poem's tone is serious and depressing.