Terms

1/Rhythm: a pattern of recurrence, something that happens with regularity.
Meter: the number of feet in a line.

Example:

You know that it would be untrue,
You know that I would be a liar,
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher.
Come on, baby, light my fire.
Try to set the night on fire.

--Jim Morrison, “Light My Fire”

Significance: It makes more sounds are similar and make the reader read deeply



2/ assonance: the refrain of vowel sounds.

Example:

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
From the fourth stanza:
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.

Significance: this can make rhyme without a sentence.


3/ Symbol: something such as an particular mark that represents some piece of information.

Example:
A red octagon represents "STOP"

Significance: easy to know a word with symbols.

Couplet

Definition: a pair of lines in poetry.

Example:
Goose and Moose
It's hard to tell just what a goose
will have in common with a moose.
Or better yet, just what three geese
will have in common with three meese.
(Is that the plural for a mouse?
Is grice the plural for three grouse?)
I'll say this once, I'll say this thrice,
the plural for a moose is mice,
or plural for three mice is meeses.
I think that I may fall to pieces.
I feel my dizzy state increase
about the mice, the grice and geese.

by Denise Rodgers

Significance: to make us to think about what are they comparing.

Rhyme

Definition: similar sounds in two or more words.

Example:
The Modern Woman
Heal the sick and help the hurt
And fire the biggest gun.
Bring home all the money
And be satisfied with none.
Love yourself for who you are
And change, for mystery.
Yesterday collides with now
In what they want of me.

Significance: to make the poem more funny.

Personification

Definition: to make non-human to be a human.

Example:
My Town

The leaves on the ground danced in the wind
The brook sang merrily as it went on its way.
The fence posts gossiped and watched cars go by
which winked at each other just to say hi.
The traffic lights yelled, ”Stop, slow, go!”
The tires gripped the road as if clinging to life.
Stars in the sky blinked and winked out
While the hail was as sharp as a knife.

Significance: to make the readers enjoy the poem more.

Metaphor

Definition: to compare between two different thing.

Example:
You're beautiful just like a angel

Significance: to improve writing skills in Language Arts.

Stanza

Definition: It can divide a poem into many parts.

Example:
I am a funny person who likes cats
I wonder if world peace is near
I hear cats say "meo" at night
I see dogs everywhere Stanza 1
But I want a cats as a pet
I am a funny person who likes cats

Just pretending i'm a bird
I'm flying in the sky
I feel happy for all the cats being saved
I worry for all the animals in the world
I cry for the dead cats and dogs Stanza 2
But I'm a funny person who likes cats

Poetry by Jerry

Significance: It helps us to understand easier by the small part of the poem.

Imagery

Definition: You can have sights, smells, tastes, sounds, feelings from your imagination when you're reading a poem.

Example:
The Way I Play Soccer
Sweat streams down my face,
And my skin turns red under the watchful eye of the sun.
The sound of cleats pounding the earth is deafening
As my enemies charge down the field towards me.
I can sense the shooter is going to miss;
All at once, the ball collides into my chest.
Screams of victory roar across the field.
The grass stained, game ball rests
Rests lovingly between my two hands.

Poetry by Natasha Niemi

Significance: Imagery can help the reader know why the author is writing this for us to read.