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.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: Comparing two different groups of things.

Example: Life is a journey with many obstacles in in.

Significance: This makes poetry important because it relates things to others, so it stretches your imagination as you read it. It makes you think how it relates to another thing. It makes the poem more interesting.

Speaker

Definition: The person reading the poem or an imaginary character in the poem.

Example:
it's funny how hello is always accompanied with goodbye
it's funny how good memories can start to make you cry
it's funny how forever never seems to last
it's funny how much you'd lose if you forgot about your past
it's funny how “friends” can just leave when you are down
it's funny how when you need someone they never are around
it's funny how people change and think they're so much better
it's funny how many lies are packed into one “love letter”
it's funny how one night can contain so much regret
it's funny how you can forgive but not forget
it's funny how ironic life turns out to be
but the funniest part of all, is none of thats funny to me 


-arianna loshnowsky


The speaker is talking about the irony in life.


Significance: A speaker can read a poem with prosody. The speaker reads the poem with different emotions that relate to the context of the poem. The speaker reads the poem the way the author wants others to know what the feeling of the poem is. The speaker can bring out the emotions, feelings, and the mood as they read the poem.

Symbol

Definition: Something that represents something else.

Example: Life is a Road that I want to keep going.

Significance: Symbols help you to think more and try to relate yourself to it. Symbols help you think what it represents.

Couplet

Definition: A stanza with two lines that rhymes.

Example:

                      In the morning the sun shone bright
                      Clearing the thoughts of the dark night

Explanation: A couplet organizes the poem just like stanzas. Couplets also make the poem sound better with the rhyming. It makes the poem catchy.

Stanza

Definition: A group of lines in a poem that helps organize the poem into a pattern.
Example: This poem includes one stanza:
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

- Emily Dickinson,

Explanation: A stanza organizes the poem. It helps divide the poem in a pattern. It allows the reader time to rest and think about the content in the poem. It separates the movement of the poem.