Meter

Definition: An arrangement of words in a poem in regularly measure, sometimes rhyming, lines or verses.

Example:  The poem is about a tree and has it's lines put into a tree image.

Significance: It makes the reader see the pattern of the poem or the idea, also can be just used for creativity.

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Rhyme

Definition: A verse or poetry having repeating words that have correspondence to other words in a stanza/couplet or paragraph/lyric.

Example: There once was a lady called magie.
                 Whose dog was very shaggie.

Significance: It is significant, as it is a creative way to organize similar/relating ideas and make it sound good.

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Rhythm

Definition: A patterened repetition at regular intervals.

Example: The warping night air having
                   brought the boom
                 Of an owl's voice
                    in her darkened room

Singificance: It's significant because it keeps the reader on track in a pattern.

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Onomatopoeia

Definition: A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Example: CRASH!!!, BOOM!!!, SPLAT are all onomatopoeias.

Significance: You can visualize the damage/impact or hear the sound.

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Imagery

Definition: The vivid description and visualization of a scene, moment, memory, idea, or other various concept. It usually make the literary work more readable and interesting for the reader.

Example: Writing about a furious character might have you using imagery and writing about him pulling his hair out in frustration.

Significance: It makes the work more vivid and pleasureable to read.

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Personification

Definition: When an inanimate object is give human-like qualities.

Example: "The sun was glaring down upon the school." The sun isn't actually glaring, this is just a metaphorical term personifying it.

Significance: It makes the reader get into the literary work more and get a feel for the object/scene.

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METAPHOR & EXTENDED METAPHOR

A metaphor is a phrase that compares 2 things without using "like" or "as", an extended metaphor compares 2 things over more than just a sentence.

Example:  ("You'll have a whole eternity to think inside the box.")


Significance: A methaphor assists you n comparing ideas and getting your messge across to the reader.

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REPETITION

Definiton: Something reapeating in succession multiple times times. Poems are one literary works that use repetition the most.

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Significance: The significance of repetition is that it keeps the reader paying attention to the structure of the poem.

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TONE

Definiton: The tone is usually the mood of a scene in a literary work or the sound of a voice of a character

Example: If there is an atangonist in the scene then the tone might be menacing or threatening

Significance: It is significant because it makes the reader get into the scene more and fell what the characters are feeling.

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INTERPRETATION

Definiton: An interpretation is when you define something your own way or your point of view

Example: Some people intrepret that Rudyard Kipling is sexist from reading his works.

Significance: It's your opinion so it's more significant to your personal understanding than others

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SPEAKER

The speaker of the poem is usually the one talking and may even be the poet expressing his ideas through the poem.

Example: In the poem "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings, he is the speaker.

The significance of knowing who is the one talking is important because it shows you  the one who is expressing the ideas.

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SYMBOL

Definiton: Something used or thought of as something more than itself, it can also be the topic or one of the central symbolic point of poetry, essays, or most types of writing.

Example: The sun setting represents the end of your life if used symbolically or a blooming flower may be used to represent youth or the Statue of Liberty represents liberty and freedom in the US.

The symbol is significant because it may be the topic/central idea of a poem or other literary work.

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COUPLET

Definition: 2 pairs of lines in a poem which are also a stanza and can also be rhyming.

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The everyday couplet is significant in everyday poetry because it combines 2 short ideas of the author into a small stanza which may be easier to understand.

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STANZA

Definiton: A group of lines that are arranged in a paragraph form in poetry.

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

- Unknown Author 

A stanza is signifcant to the poem's structure because it divides the ideas of the writer into organized parts/sections.

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POETRY

Definition: A literary or philosophical interpretation/expression through verbal means.It usually has a rhythmic or not so rhythmic structure. Usually poetry appeals to many different types of readers who enjoy different genres of this art form.

Example: Dante's Divine Comedy, CANTO I:  "

"IN the midway 1 of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell,
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,	5
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Yet, to discourse of what there good befel,
All else will I relate discover’d there.
How first I enter’d it I scarce can say,	10
Such sleepy dulness in that instant weigh’d
My senses down, when the true path I left;
But when a mountain’s foot I reach’d, where closed
The valley that had pierced my heart with dread,
I look’d aloft, and saw his shoulders broad	15
Already vested with that planet’s beam, 2
Who leads all wanderers safe through every way.
Then was a little respite to the fear,"

Significance: Since poetry is viewed and read by many people in the world, it is a significant way to express yourself.