Meter

Definition: Stressed and unstressed syllables, usually in a pattern.
Example:

Significance: Meters are important in poetry because it adds rhythm to the poem.

Rhyme

Definition: The repetition in sounds from a word. Words rhyme when they sound alike.
Example:

Significance: Rhyme in poetry is important because it makes the poem have rhythm and it makes it more fun. Rhyme makes the poem have more emotion. If the words are funny, rhyming them makes it funnier.

Rhythm

Definition: The beat or pattern a poem has.
Example:

Significance: Rhythm is important in poetry because it adds a beat and pattern to the poem. It helps the poem flow and makes it more fun and easier to read.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: The use of words to make the reader hear sounds.
Example: "beep!" "ding-dong!" "BOOM!"
Significance: Onomatopoeia is important in poetry because it it helps the reader understand the author/ writer/ poet better and easier. You get the idea of the sound the writer was trying to explain.

Imagery

Definition: Connecting yourself to the poem using your five senses. (sight, hear, touch, taste, smell.)
Example: "The Sun was so bright, it burned my eyeballs."
Significance: Imagery is important in poetry because it helps the reader connect with the author of the poem and it makes the reader feel like he/she is in the poem. It adds emotion and importance to the poem.

Personification

Definition: Giving a non-human objects human characteristics.

Example:

Significance: Personification is important in poetry because it helps connect the reader to the object. It can make the poem funnier or more sad.

Simile

Definition: Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
Example: "Her skin was as rough as sandpaper."
Significance: The use of similes are important because it helps compare objects or people.

Repetition

Definition: To write or say something repeatedly or over and over again.
Example: "If you can dream --- and not make dreams your master;/ If you can think --- and not make thought your aim."
Significance: Repetition in poetry is important because if a poet repeats the title or word, it gives it more meaning. It emphasizes on the word or title.



Tone

Definition: The way you say something, the feeling in your voice, emotion in your voice.
Example: "And --- which is more --- you'll be a man, my son!" -happy tone.
Significance: There are many different tones in poems. Poems can have a happy tone, sad tone, or angry tone.

Interpretation

Definition: Your personal opinion or thought about something or someone.

Example:

Singificance: Interpretation is an important part of poetry because it's how you think of the poem. Interpreting the poem means that you give your own opinion about it. Having your own opinion or interpretation about the poem gives your own perspective on it.



Metaphor

Definition: A metaphor is comparing two things without using "like" or "as". An extended metaphor is many metaphors linked together to make one big metaphor.
Example:

Explanation: Metaphors are important in poetry because its a form of writing that compares two things together.  It makes poetry better because (like in writing) it uses figurative language.

Speaker

Definition: The point of view in which the poem is being told by.

Explanation: The speaker plays a big role in poetry because it's told by the person or object that is experiencing the poem. The poet is not always the speaker. He/she/it gives you the feeling of whether the poem is talking about a happy, sad, or upsetting poem.The speaker makes the poem better by giving it feeling and emotion.

Symbol

Definition: a representation of an idea through the use of an object, picture, or thought.

Example: A circle with a line across the middle is a symbol for saying "no".

Explanation: The significance of a symbol is to let readers know something in a non-literal way. It makes them think. A symbol is important in poetry because it makes it more interesting and fun to read. Symbols make poetry better by adding imagination and figurative language.

Couplet

Definition: A pair of lines that rhyme.

Example:



 Explanation: A couplet is important in poetry because it helps seperate the rhymes in poems. It adds rhyming lines and makes the poem look neater.

Stanza

Stanza:  A break after a group of about 4 lines in a poem.

Example:

Significance: The significance of a STANZA is to group lines in a poem like a paragraph in an essay. A stanza is an important part of poetry because enables the poet to change the setting or person. Stanzas add length and meaning to a poem. It makes poetry better because it doesn't make everything jumbled together.