Elegy

Definition: A sad poem, mostly for funerals.
Example:

God saw you getting tired

When a cure was not to be.

So He wrapped his arms around you,

and whispered, “Come to me”.

You didn’t deserve what you went through,

So He gave you rest.

God’s garden must be beautiful,

He only takes the best

And when I saw you sleeping,

So peaceful and free from pain

I could not wish you back

To suffer that again.

Significance: To express one's emotions or feelings inside. The poet would be happier and relieved to express their emotions while the reader can relate themselves to the poem.

Couplet

Definition: A pair of lines that has the same meter and sometimes rhymes.
Example:
I have two cats, one mean and one nice.
They chased some mice.
Significance: It's easier to read & remember, and is really captivating.

Rhyme

Definition: A repeating of similar sounds at the end of each line.
Example:

I say yes and you say no
I say bye and you say hello
Butterfly's fly and penguins swim
Professionals lie and adventures go on whim
If you go up I go down
An emo to a happy clown
Girlie girls pink and fat ones brown
Smiles right side up and frowns up side down
A rainbow to a black plain thing
A monotone to an opera sing
A rainy cloud to a sunny day
Bright colors and something gray
A beginning to an ending
A broken heart and then something mending
Significance: It sounds funnier and captures the reader's attention. Also, it helps the readers to memorize the poem better with all the similar vowels.

Rhythm

Definition: The beat in a poem
Example:

Music is part of my everyday life,
it's the one thing that makes me feel alive.
No matter what it could be,
all music influences me.

Music teaches me everything I do,
After hearing the words, you know it suits you.
Without music I don't know what I would do,
when I'm feeling bad it's the only place I can go to.

Music is my life, my desire,
As I listen, it builds me higher.
No matter what kind, rock, country, or rap,
you can't convince me that any of it is crap.

Whatever you're feeling, whether its happy, sad or fear,
just turn it up and listen to what you hear.
To me music could never go wrong,
I could listen to it all day long.

Significance: It's interesting and fun while reading a rhythm poem. It sounds a lot like music, which people like to listen to.

Personification

Definition: To describe a non-human object by using human actions to describe it.
Example: The lightning danced across the ocean.
Significance: The poem would be more interesting and readers can imagine it while reading.

Speaker

Definition: The person who is talking/ transmitting the message to you in the poem
Example:

a friend is like a flower,
a rose to be exact,
Or maybe like a brand new gate
that never comes unlatched.
A friend is like an owl,
both beautiful and wise.
Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,
whose spirit never dies.
A friend is like a heart
that goes strong until the end.
Where would we be in this world
if we didn't have a friend.
Significance: It sounds a lot like someone is talking to you directly when you read a poem like this. It makes it more fun to read.

Tone

Definition: how the poem sounds when readers are reading it.
Example:
Little cullud Rastus come a-skippin’ down de street,
A-smilin’ and a-grinnin’ at every one he meet;
My, oh! He was happy! Boy, but was he gay!
Wishin’ “Merry Chris’mus” an’ “Happy New-Year’s Day”!
Wishin’ that his wishes might every one come true—
And—bless your dear heart, honey,—I wish the same to you!
Significance: It brings emotions and feelings to the poem as it is read aloud. It also makes the poem more entertaining and interesting with the right kind of voice.

Interpretation

Definition: To explain or analyze someone's artwork
Example:
A true friend like you...
Warms you with her presence
A true friend like you...
Trusts you with her secrets
A true friend like you...
Remembers you in her prayers
A true friend like you...
Is always special!

The poem talks about the author is expressing his/her feelings about her true friend
Significance: Helps readers to understand the poem more

Simile

Definition: A figure of speech that compares 2 things using like or as.
Example: The kitten is soft like a pillow.
Significance: It helps the author describe it easier to help the readers understand it in entertaining and interesting ways.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: A type of metaphor that describes and compare 2 things over and over until the stanza ends.
Example:

Bat

My son is a bat.
His eyes blink when darkness comes.
His body stirs with life.
His limbs gorge with blood
as he sets out through the cave of night
his roof the stars
the moon a big white eye watching.
Attracted by the false lights
he mingles with his batty friends
weaving in and out of nightclubs
endless parties
each other’s places
till sensing the sudden ebb
of darkness
he flutters home
a cloaked Dracula
to the hollow of his room
where he will sleep all day

Significance: Readers also understand even more when reading it. The poem is useful to the readers because it makes them understand the object that they don't know even deeper.

Metaphor

Definition: A figure of speech that compares 2 different things directly without using: like or as
Example: She's an angel whenever she smiles.
Significance: Helps reader to understand deeper and imagine what's the author trying to say. If the readers don't understand something, they can visualize that thing that they do not know.

Stanza

Definition: a paragraph in a poem or a group of lines. There are many types of stanzas.
Example:

A

Shiny

Little star

Burned bright

Full of glowing light

Spreading joy to the night

Christmas time!

Significance: You can seperate your ideas and help readers to pause for a little. That helps them to understand better. The readers wouldn't get confuse with they're reading.

Imagery

Definition: The senses (sight, smell, touch, hear, taste) that you imagine when reading a poem.
Example:

When I asked dad for twenty bucks,

He said, “Let’s make a deal.

I’ll give you money only if

You eat a healthy meal.”

I found him sitting on the couch before I went to bed.

I look into his tired eyes

And this is what I said:

“I finished all my vegetables.

The carrots tasted great!

I ate the piece of celery

That mom put on my plate.

The egg plant was delicious

And the string beans were divine.

The peppers were fantastic

And the broccoli was fine.

The giant baked potato

Was the highlight of my night.

The juicy red tomato filled my belly with delight.”

My dad said he was proud of me

And handed me the cash.

I hope he doesn’t find out

All this food is in the trash!

Significance: We can use our 5 senses to read the poem. We can understand it more clearly and better. Through words, we can imagine a picture and know the meaning of the poem. If we don't visualize a picture in our mind, it's hard to understand it.

Define Poetry

Definition : A written or spoken art that express one's emotionals, feelings, or thoughts using senses, figures of speech and imagery.
Example:
BANG! BANG!
He shot me down~
BANG! BANG!
I hit the ground~
BANG! BANG!
That awful sound~
BANG! BANG!
My baby shot me down~
Significance: Poetry is also similar to music. It has rhythm, and it rhymes. It shows the feelings of the person that wrote it and you can share it with other people.