Meter

DEFINITION: The pattern for how each verse in poems should be read

EXAMPLE:

SIGNIFICANCE: It's good to know how each poem should be read because without it, a person can read it without stopping and it wouldn't have expressions in it.

Elegy

DEFINITION: A poem especially written for the lost of someone

EXAMPLE: O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman is an elegy (one of the poems read in class)

SIGNIFICANCE: An elegy poem can show how much someone meant to them through the words they write. It's a way people who have lost someone to express themselves.

Couplet

DEFINITION: Two lines of verses that rhymes at the end

EXAMPLE: Mother's beautiful ring is blue

                    Mother all the clouds are too!

SIGNIFICANCE: Just like other poetic devices, reading couplets makes the poem interesting to read.

RHYME

DEFINITION: Words having the same sounds, mostly heard on the last syllable

EXAMPLE: The cat has a bat on his hat.

SIGNIFICANCE: Rhymes often make poems for children fun to read and sometimes for older audiences too. Rhymes, similes, personification, and other ways to write sentences are like creative ways to get people's interest.

RHYTHM

DEFINITION: The rise and fall of words in poems or any similar type of writing.

EXAMPLE: da da da DUM da da da DUM da da da DUM

SIGNIFICANCE: Rhythm is important in any type of writing like poem or when speaking since without it, words will just keep going on in a boring way and without expressions.

PERSONIFICATION

DEFINITION: A figure of speech where an object is given human characteristics.

EXAMPLE: The wind was so strong that the trees danced around.

SIGNIFICANCE: Giving objects human characteristics is interesting to read and visualize rather than describing it the way it's usually described which is its own characteristics.

SPEAKER

DEFINITION: Speaking in the point-of-view of a person or character in a poem

EXAMPLE: Ever since we met that day
After the vacation
In the library corridor way
Our friendship was not the same
It had become more lame.

We had a fight last night?
No, almost passed a fortnight
But still you remember it.
Cant you please get rid of it.

The first day you ignored me
Now stopped talking to me
I am not a person who can remove knots between fights
Cause when we were friends i didnt have a need to.

Now my inner mind says
I am not a person whom i used t be
That is just because we are not friends
Dear friend understand that was the feeling between you and me

SIGNIFICANCE: Since it's in the point-of-view of a certain person or character, the reader of the poem can be that person/character while reading. It allows the reader to relate and know what feelings is being said.

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IMAGERY

 

DEFINITION: The use of senses in descriptive language to allow the reader/audience to have a visual.

EXAMPLE: The winter evening settles down

                       With smell of steaks in passageways.

SIGNIFICANCE: With the usage of descriptive language, we can get our audience to visualize the poem in their mind without  further explanation.

STANZA

DEFINITION: Multiple paragraphs of lines which creates a poem

EXAMPLE:   there are other ways        some make another ocean

many ways in fact                                     inside their cupped hands

to create worlds,
                                                              when i talk to myself

some do it in hiding                                   when everyone else leaves

the world is a corner
a nook of few clutters                                for their own homes

                                                              on delicate whispers of the heart

SIGNIFICANCE: Stanzas is like the divider of the topics since with it, it makes the reading less complicated.

METAPHOR:

DEFINITION: It's a figure of speech which compares two ideas WITHOUT using "as or like"

EXAMPLE: Life is one long scary roller coaster.

SIGNIFICANCE: Makes reading poems interesting and it uses objects/ideas in a way that we often don't see it as. 

EXTENDED METAPHOR 

DEFINITION: A metaphor that continues further into the next coming lines of the poem.

EXAMPLE: All that inhabit this great earth,

                      Whatever be their rank or worth,

                      Are kindred and allied by birth,

                      And made of the same clay.

SIGNIFICANCE: Just like metaphors, it's interesting to read, but it may get confusing. The more you read extended metaphors, you can see how much topics can be compared to each other in many sentences. 

SIMILE

 

DEFINITION: A figure of speech which compares two things that may be similar or dissimilar by using "like or as"

EXAMPLE: The book was so thick that it was as heavy as a motorbike.

SIGNIFICANCE: With the use of similes, it makes it very simple to understand more than metaphors mostly for young children.

INTERPRETATION

DEFINITION: The explanation to the meaning of something or a symbol of it

EXAMPLE:

SIGNIFICANCE: Interpretation is important because words can be easily understood mostly when descriptive than pictures since in each pictures, it can get people to think different opinions. 

TONE

DEFINITION: The quality of something that depends on pitch, strength, etc.

EXAMPLE: 

SIGNIFICANCE: Tones is important in poems, music, and in other things because without it, it'll sound dull and uninteresting.

What is Poetry?

DEFINITION: A type of literature where anything like feelings can be expressed in words using rhythm or style.

EXAMPLE:   

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

SIGNIFICANCE: Whether you're reading or writing poetry,  some sort of feeling is used to show what it means to the poet. Poetry is not only a type literature but also a common way to express feelings. To me, don't just write poems. Instead use your thoughts and feelings and that will create meaningful words.