Meter

Definition: The arrangements of words that are similar by rhyme, symbolic quantity, or number of syllables in that line. A pattern of stressed or unstressed words.

Examples: anapestic: u u / . Stressed words are represented as / and unstressed u


Significance: The use of meters can make poems more enjoyable and also more meaningful. It is creative and it is a great way to describe a whole meaning. Not just one meaning. 

Rhyme

Definition: Corresponding words that sound alike

Example: Roses are red, Violets are blue
               I like to eat honey, how bout you?


Significance: Rhyming words creates the poem to flow more smoothly. Words will sound better and smoother.

Rhythm

Definition: Repeated patterns of sound or movement

Example: Boom boom clap, boom boom clap, boom boom clap

Significance: It gives the reader a flow to the poem. It is a guideline to how the reader is suppose to read the poem. It gives the poem a pace to it.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Words that sound like the sound the object made.

Example: The chicken was being fried and it sounded like, "Sssssssisssss."

Significance: It emphasizes the sounds the reader hears. It can help the reader understand what the sound is like. It can be an easy way to describe noises objects make.

Personification

Definition: Giving human like behaivors to nonliving objects.

Example: My calculator is super smart!

Significance: It enhances writings such as poems, essays, etc. It helps describe the object giving it human like features. It allows readers to understand what the writer is trying to say. It emphasizes words to create a better udnerstanding.

Imagery

Definition: Words that reflects emotional qualities or meanings.

Example: A picture of a sunset may stand for someones death or someone about to die.

Significance: Imgaery is important because it provides many meanings and thoughts through imagery. It creates an easier way to set a scene or to create a mood.

Simile

Definition: Comparing 2 things using Like, or as.

Example: My computer is as slow as a turtle.

Significance: Simile allows people to compare 2 things unrealisticly or realisticly. It can help people exaggerate things. Helps readers connect and give a better understanding of objects.

Metaphor & Extended Metaphor

Definition: Phrases that is compared to other objects. Usually unrealistic. An extended metaphor is numerous of metaphors based on one idea.

Example: Life is like a rollercoaster. Sometimes it can be exciting and fun, but sometimes it can be dangerous and scary.

Significance: It allows writers to create something based on one idea to another idea that they thought of. It is another idea that allows creativity. It can create deeper meanings to poetry.

Repetition

Definition: Something that is repeated throughout the event, story, poem, etc.

Example: I eat fruits everyday at 3:00pm, that is a repetition of mine.

Significance: Repeating something will allow the words being repeated to be more important. It creates more of a dramatic style to say the words. In Language Arts, it allows words to be more understanding since it is being repeated.

Tone

Defintion: the way something is expressed. It is the speaker's emotions in words. Happy, sad, powerful, etc.

Example: "Shut the door now!" the tone in this dialogue is angry, mad, etc.

Significance: It is important to understand how you are suppose to read the poem or story. If the tone of the story/poem is sad, and the reader is reading it in a happy tone, it sets off the setting by a lot and the story/poem would not make sense. In Language Arts, it also allows students, readers, to know how you should read it.

Interpretation

Definition: To state something in your own words. Your own way of seeing things. Meaning and theme.

Example: Many folktales are interpretations of dreams

Significance: Allows poets to say something in their own way. Instead of narrowing your ideas into a small tunnel, you can expand the ideas to create your own way of looking at things. It describes the meaning and theme in your own words. It is important in Language Arts because it is the writer's ideas, not just plagiarism.

Speaker

Definition: The person that is telling the story/poem. Usually unknown.

Example: The speaker of the assembly was Dr. Martin, who told us the rules of the school.

               “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

And live like it's heaven on earth.” 

-William W. Purkey

The speaker is William W. Purkey

Significance: Knowing who the speaker is helps readers know what the setting is like. Speakers allows readers to know the tone of the story and how to read it. Not knowing the speaker would not have students know the tone of the story.

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

Symbol

Definition: a thing that represents something or stands for something.

Example: A sword may symbolize war, or fighting.

Significance: Allows others to see multiple words as pictures. Shortens ideas. Symbols help people understand things better with their own creativity. It can have people explore interest ideas. Readers can imagine the thoughts and feelings shown in the symbol.

This pickaxe symbolizes mining.

Couplet

Definition: two lines of peotry, usually transitioned by rhyming.


Example: "Couplet form suggests a drive toward cohesion."
                                        -http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/couplet

Significance: Couplets are significant beacuse of how it is another style of poetry. It allows poets to feel free about their poetry, also it allows words to transition well with others. It follows tradition and are "self-contained pieces of wisdom."

Stanza

Definition: a section of lines that describes mainly the same subject. A short paragraph in peotry.
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 

Importance: This is important to poetry to because it allows the reader to understand the poem and read the poem more thoroughly. It organizes subjects more efficiently. It allows the poem to look and feel better.

Poetry

Definition
The art of literacy work. It expresses emotions and feelings with intensity. It is written or spoken. It uses figurative language. It is to interest someone or one self. There are many different genres from funny to sad.

Example
Roses are dead, Violets are too
Im typing poetry in Mr. Sullivan's class
How bout you?

"A woman whose most gentle soul,
Embraces me each day ...
A woman whom I dearly love,
Much more than words can say." - Kit McCallum

Significance

In my studies, I can use the term poetry with many subjects. One subject can be Physcology. For instance, many people who write poetry are expressing what they feel and what their emotions are. Poetry can help people understand the way someone lives or the way someones thinks.
Poetry in important in Language Arts because of the way how it can date back into history and show the meanings of why a person did this or that. It is also important because it is a different way of writting. It is like writting persuasive essays, autobiographies, etc. Without poetry, people's thoughts would be narrowed down and they will not be able to express themselves in their own individual way.