Speaker

Definition: the point of view the poem is from (the voice of the poem

Example:
Why the school is harsh and complicated,
Will there be a better way learning school.
I hate school,
I hate my life.

Significance: share the feelings and point of view of the characters/writer.

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.