Rhyme

Definition

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

Example

It was purchased just for you,

when you're happy or you're blue,

you can wear it on your head,

'round the house or in your bed,

you can wear it in the dark,

while you're ..........

Significance

Rhyme gives a poem a type of flow that makes it unique in comparison to another poem. In turn, making each poem different in a way other than just words.

Rhythm

Definition

The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables.

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

Rhythm is the key to keeping a poem interesting by expressing emotion in a pattern and letting you speak with great tone along with meaning.

Repetition

Definition

Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry

Example

Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn....

Significance

It's significant because it shows that the author is trying to emphasize a certain point. He or she is trying to bring whatever they're repeating into the reader's attention.

Tone

Definition

A poem's tone is the attitude that its style implies. 

Example

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." - Catcher in the Rye

Significance 

Tone lets poets express there emotion through there literature and give the poem a deeper meaning.

Interpretation

Definition

The way you view or "interpret" a subject or being. Not everybody has the same view or interpretation of something, some may view others in a different way than another.

Example

In Recompense

by Eda Lou Walton

Now for the long years when I could not love you,

I bring in recompense this gift of yearning-

A luminous vase uplifted to the sun,

Blue with the shadows of near-twilight.

Here in its full round symmetry of darkness,

Burning with swift curved flashes bright as tears,

I lift it to the lonely lips that knew

Its slow creation, and thw wheel of sorrow turning.

Take it with hands like faded petals,

White as the moonlight of our garden;

And for the long years when I could not love you

Drink from its amber-coloured night.\

Some may view this poem about life, a special other or even a remembrance of the past.

Significance

Interpretation is a key in poetry because it can let the readers make a poem something they can relate to and understand in there own way instead of just seeing it in "tunnel-vision".

Onomatopoeia

Definition

A sound from a word that is referable to what it is representing.

Example

"Knock-Knock"

Who's there?

Boo.

Boo who?

Don't cry, it's just a joke. 

Significance

Onomatopoeia lets you imagine what the sound is like if you were in the poem. Not only that, but can let you see where the climax is in the poem or where a important segment in the poem is.

Personification

Definition

The act of giving an inanimate object human like attributes. When used in poetry, it can be used to give an idea better by relation to an object or subject.

Example

The blade of grass danced in the summer breeze as the children played near the picnic.

Significance

Personification can be used to give subjects that aren't alive human like abilities to relate. The use of personification is also a way to give the subject a bigger meaning than just being there.

Imagery

Definition

The use of one or more of the five senses (sight, see, smell, speak, and hear) to simulate the poem in your head to give you an idea of what is happening.

Example

My father lies black and hushed

Beneath white hospital sheets

He collapsed at work

His iron left him

Slow and quiet he sank

Significance

  Most figures of speech cast up a picture in your mind. These pictures created or suggested by the poet are called 'images'. To participate fully in the world of poem, we must  understand how the poet uses image to convey more than what is actually said or literally meant. 

Simile

Definition

A comparison of two things using "like" or "as". The two objects or subjects do not have to be exactly the same but can be related.

Example

Good coffee is like a good friendship; rich, warm, and enjoyable

Significance

Similes allow a poet or speaker to compare two subjects that cannot be related in other ways. Other than just giving comparisons, it lets you understand a part of a poem in more than one point of view.

Extended Metaphor

Definition

A comparison of two things without the use of "like" or "as". But is thoroughly conveyed with more than one sentence.

Example

"I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest sea;

Yet, never, in extremity,

It asked a crumb of me"

- Emily Dickinson

Significance

Extended Metaphors allow poets and intuitive writers compare two things and do it to a point where it seems to have it's own story. So instead of just a comparison consisting of one sentence, the comparison goes on to a deeper meaning than just "this thing and that thing."

Speaker

Definition

     Speaker in poetry is the point of view of the "subject" in a poem. In turn, gives you a better idea of how to interpret the poem other than from a third person view.

Example     

    "I hate writing; I hate art—there’s always something else there. I won’t have you choosing words about me. If you ever start that, your diary will become a horrible trap, and I shan’t feel safe with you any more. I like you to think, in a sort of way; I like to think of you going like a watch. But between you and me there must never be any thoughts." (Eddie to Portia) 



Significance     

      Using a first person perspective in poetry lets the poet give the reader a better idea of whats happening in the poem. Which can give a brighter idea to what the poet is trying to say through the poem.

Symbol

Definition

     A word or sentence that stands for something else that can be related to.

Example

    

The Sick RoseO Rose, thou art sick.The invisible wormThat flies in the nightIn the howling storm
Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy,And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.

Signifigance

     Symbols allow poets to give meaning to other things that might not fit in the poem but must be used. Also symbols can stand for anything the poets chooses but it should fit in context to the entire poem.

Couplet

Definition

     A two line verse found mainly in poetry. Can be used to rhyme or to give ideas.

Example

     His hair looks like burnt hay.
     At full moons he will bay.

Significance

     Couplets allow poets to portray ideas and experiences with small short sentences. But since they are only two sentences, a poet is free to add as many as he wants.

Stanza

Definition

     A group of lines forming a type of "paragraph" for poetry; a verse

Example

         The poem consists of 4 stanzas, each one being 5 lines.

Significance

     Stanzas allow poets to divide up their poem to give different ideas and meanings. Stanzas also give the poet a way to add tension between the audience and themselves with pauses and breaks.

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Poetry

Definition:

     Poetry: A form of expression through literature. Styles for poetry are very diverse between everybody. Poetry can be made in a rhythmic expression but it is not always necessary.

Example:

     Success is not the triumph over regress, 
Success is the power to suppress.
Success is not the money or the fame,
Success is, knowing you are still the same.

Signifigance:
     Poetry is a type of emotional message and should be appreciated and learned from. Regardless of the message, one should not just look from one perspective but from the poet's and others in the same type of emotional situation.