Alliteration

Definition: repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases

Example: 

The sickly silence fell upon the patron of the game.

Significance: It help to boost imagery and help the reader to visualize the poem

Onomatopoeia

Definition: words which mean what they sound like

Example:
Bang! The bullet goes through the man's head, splashing his brains everywhere.

Example of opening sentence - by Blake Stok, a.k.a Mr Blake

Significance: Sometimes just describing the sound isn't enough. The author describe the sound of a the gun shot (without telling the reader it's the sound of a gun shot)as loud and scary, but the reader might think of the sound of an earthquake since his he think of loud and scary is the sound of an earthquake, not a gun shot.

Symbol

Definition: A thing which symbolize another something else (things/person/ideas)

Example: a four leaves clover symbolize luck; #13 symbolize bad luck

Significance: 1st) It can help the poet make some message / idea hidden; 2) people also have to infer what do the symbols mean and when they think about it, they're interest about the poem and they also have to actually read the poem to know what's hidden

Yin Yang symbolize harmony

Lines

Definition: A verse of poetry

Example:

By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.
His fingers make a hat about his head.
His pulse beat is so slow we think him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the night
Among the trees that face the corner light.          => 10 lines
But when he brushes up against a screen,
We are afraid of what our eyes have seen:
For something is amiss or out of place
When mice with wings can wear a human face.


Significance: It's important to have lines so the ideas can be easily divided

rhythm

Definition: the beat/pattern of sound in a poem created when you read the poem out loud (also found in songs)

Example:
What are words
If you really don't mean them
When you say them
What are words
If they're only for good times
Then they don't
When it's love
Yeah, you say them out loud
Those words, They never go away
They live on, even when we're gone

What are words - Chris Medina

Significance: Rhythm make the poem sound more lively when reading out loud, and also make it intertesting for people to read.

Rhyme

Definition: similiar sound, usually at the end of the lines

Example:
By day the bat is cousin to the mouse.
He likes the attic of an aging house.

 Significance: rhyming help the poem to be more interesting and sound more ... colorful.

Tone

Definition: The high and low pitch of the sound you made when reading / singing / talking outloud.

Example:
When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

Just the way you are - Bruno Mars

Significance: When reading outloud a poem with tone, you give it more feeling and emotion which make it interesting

Interpretation

Definition: the way people understand things

Example: romeo & juliet
Girl: people can die for their love :]
Boy: move on!!! why should we (boys) die when the girls did not?

Significance: Poems/Literature pieces have many themes and messages. Some people will understand the piece in one way, and learn the messages. Meanwhile, others  will understand the piece another way, and learn other messages.

Stanza

Definition: A division / paragraph of a poem

Example:

I see a big fly

sitting on a pie.

My brother takes a big bite

and the fly vanishes out of sight

Significance: With long poems, stanza are required so that audiences wouldn't be tired reading the poems, and also to divide ideas .

Personification

Definition: adding human traits/actions to a nonhuman thing.

Example: The volcano roared, before it destroyed the whole village.

Significance: personification help making the poem more interesting to read, and visualized.

Metaphor

Definition: Directly comparing two things without using connecting words.

Example: Charlie is the coach. He's the soul of the team.

Significance: Comparing thing help to better understand poem. Not using connecting words would make it more difficult to guess the meaning of the metaphor. The reader wouldn't know for sure if it means "look like", "smell like", "act like", etc.

Simile

Definition: Compare one thing to another indirectly by using connecting words: like, as,etc

Example: Joe just shaved his head. He look like a monk

Significance: When you comparing things, you make schema. This make it more interesting, easier to understand and easier to remember.

Poetry

Definition: A kind of literature that often is presented in a column with rows. It can include rhythmic, rhyme, imagery, and figures of speech and is often used to to express emotions are telling stories.


Example:
Yes! No! My turn signal wasn’t working,
So I asked for help from a friend.
"Stand behind the car," I said.
"Let’s get this problem to end." "When I turn the signal on,
If it’s working, let me know."
I hit the blinker and then I heard:
"Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No!"

Significance: Like other kinds of literature, we should read them, get out information from them, get the message they conveyed, and appreciate what they told you.