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.