meter

Definition: Poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.


Example: / - - / - - /
Hickory, dickory, dock,
- / - / - /
The mice ran up the clock.
- / - /
The clock struck one,
- / - /
The mice ran down.
/ - - / - - /
Hickory, dickory , dock.
Significance: I think that a meter is how the word sounds.

rhyme

Definition: Verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.


Example:It was purchased just for you,

when you're happy or you're blue,
you can wear it on your head,
'round the house or in your bed,
you can wear it in the dark,
while you're ..........

Significance: I think that if a word rhymes than it sounds the same as a different word.

rhythm

Definition: Rhythm is the significant in poetry because poetry is so emotionally charged and intense. Rhythm can be measured in terms of heavily stressed and to less stressed syllables. Rhythm is measured in feet.


Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, 

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

Significance: I think that rhythm is like the beat the poem has.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.


Example:

Mom & Dad Are Home

Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
Significane: Onomatopoeia is the sound the object makes.

Personification

Definition: The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.


Example:

Games

Chipmunks chatter and scurry,
Blue jays scream and scold.
Robins talk and gossip
demanding their story to be told.
Squirrels skip and box one another
and rabbits play hop scotch.
The games they play, the sounds they make
Really are top notch.


Significance: Personification is when you make an object a human.

Imagery

Definition: The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.




Example:

What Christmas Feels Like

The tree’s aglow with colors of red, green, blue, and orange,
The heat’s toasty arms warmly embrace us.
Presents under the Christmas tree
Beg to be released from their bright, sparkling coats.
Santa Claus cookies washed down with boiling, hot chocolate;
Shouts of glee and appreciation;
Hearts overflowing with love;
This is what Christmas feels like.
Significance: Imagery is when you use your five senses to explain something.

simile

Definition: A figure of speech in wich too unlike things are explicitly compared, as in " she is like a rose". compare metaphor.


Example:

Birds

Chirping non-stop, like a machine in the trees,
Building their nest like little worker bees.
They sing their songs, like chatter-boxes.
As regular as alarm clocks,
Waking people up each day.
They are silent at night,
Like snakes advancing on prey.


Significance: Simile is when you say something using like or as.