Meter

Definition: Meter in poetry isn't the length of something, it's the stressed or unstressed syllables of a line in a poem.


Example: 
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
(da Dum da Dum da Dum da Dum da Dum)
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
(da Dum da Dum da Dum da Dum da Dum)


Significance: Meter is important in poetry because it can use to attract readers and is way better than listen to a natural meter than a irregular meter.This way the poet wouldn't make the listener/reader stop and consider the message behind the poem when using irregular rhythms.

Rhyme

Definition:  A kind of poetry that have a word ends to a same or similar sound to another on each line in poetry.

Example:
It's already spring,
And the snow is still pilling,
That's why the birds can't sing,
And why the sky isn't smiling


Significance: Rhyming are very important in poetry because is a type of poetry that's sometime fun to read and sometimes to show the ability to use 2 or more words to rhymes.

Rhythm

Definition: A repeating pattern or the arrangement of syllables or notes on a poem or song.

Example: 

Well I gotta go now.

Okay, see you later.

Sure, pal. So long.

See you. Take care.

Bye bye.

Bye bye.

Significance: Rhythm can really change the emotion of the entire poem. Without rhythm, reader won't be able to read it easier or put more emotion into the poem. Sometime is even fun to try and figure out a poem's rhythm.

Onomatopoeia

Definitioin: Using a word that associate with sounds.

Example:  Boom! Sizzle, Pow!
            
Significance: Onomatopoeia are used to give a better detail of the poem or writing instead being plain and boring. Using onomatopoeia could make the writing way more interesting and fun to read.

Personification

Definition: A figurative language that gives a non-human or non-living objects a human traits.

Example: "The wind blows angrily, like a raging bear."

Significance: Personification is important in writings because it can make poems and writings more interesting/dramatic. We use personification because sometime is easier for us to compare something with human traits and more easier to understand.

Imagery

Definition: A figurative launguage that gives you a visual image using your five senses so can get a better understanding and feel like you're in the poem or the story.

Example:

Sight: the rose is bright red
Hearing: it sounds like the chirping of several birds, with their high voices.
Smell: the air smells like going to the countryside. fresh and green. no smell of smoke but the fresh waters and the leaves.
Touch: it feels bumpy yet gives off a welcoming warmth
Taste: it tastes sweet yet spicy at once, with a tinge of orange taste.

Significance: There are five senses that help give you images in the poem: smell,sight, hear,touch,and taste. These senses can help you give a nice image of what is going on, what is happening, or what the person is feeling in the poem.

Simile

Definition: A figurative language that compares two thing using "like" or "as".

Example: I'm light as a feather.

Significance: Similes are very important in real life and as well as in poetry. We often doesn't know that we're already using simile. In poetry, the poet uses simile to make the poem more lifelike and help the reader to understand better.

Repetition

Definition: The repeating cycle of something.

Significance: Repetition is very important because it can show emphsais,dramas, or importantce on the poem of what the speaker is trying to say.

Example: 
I look down the street
With eyes behind me
I walk down the street
With eyes behind me

The speaker in this poem is trying to show that there are something or someone following him.

Tone

Definition: Tone is the emotion,level, or pitch in your voice or sounds.

Significance: Tone is very important for reading poems and also to show how does the poet wants you to read it out which can help you understand better.

Example:

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; (light, informing tone)
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away ("only" tone - reservation)
And wait to watch the water clear, I may: (supplementary, possibility)
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come too. (free tone, assuring) (after thought, inviting)

Interpretation

Definition: Your own understanding of something.

Significance: Everyone has their own interpretation, we all have different views and points at different things, everyone looks at stuff differently. This is imporatnt in poetry because the reader and the speaker both might have different interpretation.

Example: John believe that the moon is made of cheese, while Bob said that the moon is made of rocks.

Extended Metaphor/Metaphor

Definition: -Extended Metaphor: a group of metaphors that is comparing a specific thing.
                     -Metaphor: Comparison between something without using "like" or "as"

Example: The moon is made of cheese, the holes on the moon's surface are the pimples, the glowing bright light are its bright smile.

Significance: Metaphor can be used to make poems to have deeper meanings or funner to understand.

Speaker

Definition: The narrator of the poem, but mostly the speaker identity is kept unknown .

Example:      I am a nutty guy who likes dolphins.
                        I wonder what I, and the world, will be like in the year 2000.
                        I hear silence pulsing in the middle of the night.
                        I see a dolphin flying up to the sky.
                        I want the adventure of life before it passes me by.
                        I am a nutty guy who likes dolphins

          ( In this poem the speaker's identity is kept unknown, but is told from a point of view)

Significance: Speaker doesn't have to necessarily be the poet, or it can be unknown at all. It is very important to have a point of view and sometime needed for the poem to be mysterious. 

Symbol

Definition: A thing that represent something else, like an idea, object, or a character.

Example:      The healthy tree
                        Swayed in the wind
                        And lived many years with the glass half full
                        But, eventually it came to its death
                        Now, in the afterlife, its on a marble gravestone
                        Now, it symbolizes the life of the person below it
                        The tree lived such a blissful life
                        As did the person－
                        The symbol represents the life of a fulfilled, peaceful ..  

Significance: Most poetry have symbols that represent something, like a thunderstorm might represent bad day, or a sunny day can be use as a lucky/or happy day. It is very important in poetry because it can be use to represent a deeper meaning.

Couplet

Definition: Couplet is two line of verse that rhymes.

Example: Sir Russell was the first knight of the round table,
                        Saying he was a coward is a complete fable.

Significance: Couplets are very important for rhymings, it's also a type of poem that's like a stanza and can be used with it. 

Stanza

Definition: Stanza are like paragraphs for poems, every new stanza is a seperate idea.


Example:      I Love To Write Poems
                         (First Stanza)
                         I love to write
                         Day and night
                         What would my heart do
                         But cry, sigh and be blue
                         If I could not write
                        (Second Stanza)
                        Writing feels good
                        And I know it should
                        Who could have knew
                        That what I do
                        Is write, write, write

Significance: Stanza is very important for poems to have different ideas and alike to a paragraph, each Stanza is a new or seperate idea. Stanza can make a poem have more ideas and easier to read.