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."