Meter

Definition-The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of syllables in a line.


Example- 

• IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers
• SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

Significance- The importance of meter in poetry is to be more organized when your writing it and so it flows better.

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Rhyme

Definition- Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.


Example- The wind in her hair over there 
The chair that sat with her hair 
Eyes on eyes 
Fire and lye 
in the river sky on I 

Significance- The importance of rhyme in poetry is that you will always be rhyming words and you'll see and hear that it sounds better. Rhyming is a common thing in poetry you'll see it a lot and basically a lot of people think that poetry is just to rhyme words.

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Rhythm

Definition-Rhythm is a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.


Example- I hear the sound I love, the soung of the hyman voice, 
I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, or following, 
Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals...

Significance- This is an important part of poetry because it is really interesting to listen and read these kinds of poem. Also the way it flows and seeing all the description while reading it. when you read poems with rhythm you never get bored because you're also trying to figure out what the poems about.
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Onomatopoeia

Definition- A certain sound made by a noun

Example- Knock-knock Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
Don't cry, I was only joking
Signifigance of the term- this is an important part of poetry because it puts more action in the poem. also makes in more exaciting to see what your reading and to see whats the next and why that sound was made.

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personification

Defination- The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

Example- Stars, bring me up with you
Bring me to the place
you sleep.
How do you do it?
Bring me to your home.
Bring your thoughts
to me.
Share them
with me.

Significance of the term- personification is an important part of poetry because it gives youa better imagination about a certain thing. it also explains more in life but with more detail.

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imagery

Definition- when using your five senses in poetry like tactile olfactory imagery gustatory auditory

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.

 

Signifigance of the term- This is an important part of poetry because it talks about your five senses and theres a lot of description when you talk about your senses and you can compare a lot of different things to your five senses.

 

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simile

Definition- Its when you compare two or more objects when using like or as.

Example- My hand was as cold as ice

Sgnifigance of the term- this is an important part of poetry because you undersatnd the compairson better because in similes they are examples of whats going on. Also it sounds better when you read it.

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Repetition

Repetition- It is when the same word in a poem is repeated.

Example-I'm nobody! Who are you?
            Are you nobody too?
   Then there's a pair of us-don't tell!
              They'd banish us you know
             How dreary to be somebody!
              how public, like a frog.
         To tell your name livelong day
              To an admiring bog!

Signifigance of the term- this is an important part in poetry because it makes the poem sound better and you get a better picture of the main idea of the poem is about because of how many times they've repeated the main word in the poem or the main persons name in the poem.

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Tone

Tone- Is when you say something with feelings and emotions when reading the poem.

Example-

The Pasture

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) "Rather well for me" --

I'm going out to fetch the little calf (Similar, free, persuasive, assuring
That's standing by the mother. It's so young, and inviting tones in second stanza)
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come too.

by Robert frost

Significance of the term- This is a really important part of poetry because when you have feelings when you read a poem the people listening will understand the poem and what it means. which makes it easier for people.

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Interpretation

Interpretation- Its your own understanding of something when writing or reading a poem.

Example-

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Significance of the term- This is an important part of poetry because its what you understand about poetry.and also while your reading the poem you'll understand it better.

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Metaphor

Metaphor- It it when a noun is compared and contrast them to one another without using like or as.


Example-  "I am a rainbow"


Significance of the term- It is important to have metaphors in poetry because the reader can then see what the poet
means and feels. A metaphor helps the writer create an image in the readers head that helps the reader to see ideas
more clearly. 

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Extended Metaphor- A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.


Example-                               My son is a bat.

His eyes blink when darkness comes.
His body stirs with life.
His limbs gorge with blood
as he sets out through the cave of night
his roof the stars
the moon a big white eye watching.
Attracted by the false lights
he mingles with his batty friends
weaving in and out of nightclubs
endless parties
each other’s places
till sensing the sudden ebb
of darkness
he flutters home
a cloaked Dracula
to the hollow of his room
where he will sleep all day

Significance of the term- Extended metaphor is an important part of poetry because there is more description and also gives a better idea of what the poem is about. also when there is extended metaphor in poetry you could relate it more to other things.


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Speaker- is the person talking in the poem and about the poem also who is telling the story. Also changes the tome and shows different emotions.

Example-  "What soft, cherubic creatures
                 These gentlewomen are!
                 One would as soon assault a plush
                 Or violate a star."

Significance of the term- The speaker can change the tone of the poem by the tone of voice they choose to           

                                         use and the emotion that they express when reading the poem.

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Symbol-  A poem having to do with the 5 senses.

Example- 

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

Explanation of signifigance- This is an important part i poetry because it shows a lot of feelings and is easy and fun to read to many people.

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Couplet- Two lines in a poem that rhymes and often uses a complete thought.

Example- My Cat
          By Molly
  I like to play with my cat
 He likes to get in a hat.

Explanation of signifigance- Couplet is an important part in poetry because when you read its straight forward and more organized when it rhymes.

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Stanza- A group of lines in a poem.

Example- (First Stanza)Explanation of the Significance- Stanza is an important part in poetry because it tells a story and rhyms and it makes the poem more organized. It makes it easier to read because it describes each feeling differently.

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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

- Unknown Author