Rhyme

Definition: Rhyme are words that have the same sounds at the last syllable.

Example:
Phone & Tone
Hat & Cat
Ten & Pen

Significance: Rhyme help the reader to memorize the poem more, and also make the poem more interesting.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Words that describe sounds

Example: Crash, Boom, Splash, Clunk, Roar, KaBoom, Bang, Bam, Ding Dong, etc.

Significance: Onomatopoeia are helpful because they help readers to know how big, small sound is. Onomatopoeia are short words that describe sounds, other than a long sentence that just describe a sound.

Personification

Definition: Figure of speech that when the author make things act like a humans.

Example: The small house hide under those hills

Significance: Using personification is creative, it is more interesting to describe something is staying somewhere, etc.

Simile

Definition: Comparison of 2 things using like, such, as

Examples: Your house look like a castle.

Significance: Simile and Metaphor are likely the same, it both shows what are things look like, but Simile is indirectly.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: Comparison of 2 unlike things throughout a stanza.

Examples:
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
      -Emily Dickinson

Significance: I think Extended Metaphor help the reader to understand more about what the author is comparing,  it express better than just metaphor.

Metaphor

Definition: Directly Comparison between 2 things

Example: My eyes are 2 marbles

Significance: I think metaphor help the reader to know how something look like, it's part of Imagery.

in this picture, the boy is playing game and the volume is too loud, so they make his head as a loudspeakers.

Stanza

Definition: A oiem are divided into many parts, called stanza. It divided by adding some space between the 2 stanza.

Example:


Stanza 1
My tears are not of loss
But of time too quickly gone.
I miss our days together
Even while they're going on.

Stanza 2

I savor odd, sweet moments
When you laugh or when you smile,
Nostalgic for your presence
Though you're with me all the while.

Stanza 3

Strange how fantasy
Can wander in and out at will,
Looking back from somewhere
That is just beyond a hill.

Stanza 4

And so when once you leave
You will not leave me alone,
For I will have you with me

Long, long after you are home.

Imagery

Definition: Imagery are words that sounds like real things. Imagery are not visual, but you can feel like it's real.

Example:

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

Significance: Imagery help the reader to know more about the poem. It help the reader to know how good, bad, delicious, smal, big, etc. things was.

POETRY

Definition: Poetry is a written text that express some kind of feelings, emotions. Using rhymed words like Foots with Boots, Cell with Bell,etc. can make the poem more interesting, but don't have to.

Example: Love Time
If I could have all the time in the world,
I know what I would do:
I’d spend the time
In pleasure sublime,
Just by being with you.
By Joanna Fuchs

One funny poem that had been re-invented by a funny guy:
If roses are red
And Violets are blue
Then what the hell is the color violets
LOL

Significance: We can know the author feelings and expression when he made the poems, through reading the poem, because sometimes all the author's feeling are put into words in the poem.