Rhythm

Rhythm: A strong repeated pattern of movement or sound.


Example: 

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able
Boom, boom, BOOM,
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.

Significance: we use rhythm to get it tune with the poem. We use in in almost every poem that we read.

Rhyme

Rhyme: A poem or verse correspondence of sounds or words, especially at the end of lines.


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 strolling in the park. 

You can wear it going to Church,
or by the tele watching Lurch,
you could wear it to do the wash,
or when cooking stew or squash.

Frosty Freeze is like Carvel,
always had this great old smell,
frozen custard, ain't it grand,
lots of trips to that old stand,
Werner Brooks and A & W,
didn't have Wawa or VW.

Thought this poem might have some power,
to take old cancer to the shower,
to make you laugh and push that bug, 
with a big old "Frap" and a giant mug.

Whatever it does, it's inspired from above, 
and sent from your brother with a whole lot of
LOVE.


Significance: We use rhyming in poems to give the reader a catch. We use it to bring life to the poem, we need rhyming to connect the different words in the stanzas.

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.

Example:

Snap
Crack
Pop
BOOOMMMM!!!!!

Significance: It gives the reader or the audience a perspective of how the poem sounds. It gives the poem more life and makes it more lively.

Personification

Personification: Giving unlively things human features.

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: Without personification their wouldnt be imagery. It works hand in hand to give the listener or the audience a mental picture in their mind of what the poem is about.

 

Imagery

Imagery: The formation of mental images.

Example:

The Race

The runners flew past in unison
Each lifting right leg then left
The race was on
Above us the sky wore a brilliant,
sparkling blue sheen.
There was no room for clouds on such a day.
The multitude encouraged the runners
from both sides of the road.
A salad of applause, hoots and hollers.
It was a wonderful day for a race
The most temperate of afternoons.
Energy exchanged between spectator and runner
adding electricity to an already charged atmosphere
Indeed, it was a wonderful day for a race

Significance: Without imagery in poem, theres no life to it. When the speaker is talking to the audience, the audience expects to have a real life image in their mind to imagine whats going on in the poem.

Simile

Simile: Comparing two things using the word like or as.

Example:

Sleep like a log

Significance: We need similes in poems to compare different things to each other.

Repetition

Repetition: The act repeating in a poem.

Example:

Significance: Having repetition in a poem makes the poem have more humor. It makes the poem more enjoyable to read.

Tone

Tone: The tone sets the mood, its the voice of the poem. When the speaker is speaking they are the ones who set the tone. The tone gives the listeners of how the poem is supposed to sound.

Example:

Significance: The tone is important because is gives us the point of view of how the poem is suppoesed to be explained. In order for us to enjoy the poem we need to know the writer wants us to feel anout it.

Interpretation

Interpretation: To act out; a personal explanation

Example:

Significance: We use interpretation to have  point of view on how we see the poem. Really its just our perspective of how we look at the poem itsself.

Metaphor and Extended Metaphor

Metaphor: A metaphor is comparing two unlikely things without using the words like or as. An EXTENDED METAPHOR is comparing more than one thing to each other as in comparing groups of things.

Example:

"And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

Significance: We use these terms to give meaning and life to the poem without usuing the words like or as.

Speaker

Speaker: When reading a poem a speaker uses feeling and the point of view of the poem. The speaker uses life in poem that they are reading.

Example:

Born a self hatin' little girl with a soul so pure
Beautiful and smart-- so young, yet mature
Talented with words, but the world doesn't see
That this is the only way that I know how to be ..........

 

Significance: The speaker gives the point of view of the poem. The speaker gives the poem life and feeling when they are reading.

 

 

Symbol

Symbol: An object that represents something.

Example:

“A Sick Rose” by William Blake, 1794
Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.


Significance: Without symbols their would be no meaning to poems at all. It wouldnt give the reader something to imagine in their mind.

Couplet

Couplet: A pair of lines that rhyme and are in the same length


Example:

Significance: The significance of a couplet is to add rythm length and rhyme to the poem that you are reading. Readers should be able to enjoy the poem and enjoy

reading it as well.

Stanza

Stanza: A group of words from a part of a poem. Often, stanzas in a poem have the same patterns, follows the same rythm and length.


Example:
Teachers
Paint their minds
and guide their thoughts
Share their achievments
and Advice their faults


Significance: Stanzas give readers a rest and think about what they just read. It also lets the readers know the rhythm of the poem, where to stop and keep reading. It gives the readers time to find out the message of the stanza since every stanza holds a message or a meaning.