Meter

Definition: a basic rhythmic structure of a verse or

lines in a verse

Example: Come live | with me | and be | my loveAnd we | will all | the plea|sures prove

That's a Iamb Meter

Significance: This term is important to poetry because it

helps you understand the difference between stressed and

unstressed words by their syllables. A meter makes poetry

better because it can make you have more emphasis

during the poem.

Rhythm

Definition: A regular repeated pattern of movement

or sound.

Example:

The wind in her hair over there
The chair that sat with her hair
Eyes on eyes
Fire and lye
in the river sky on I

Significance: This term is important to poetry

because they help keep a beat and they also

make the poem flow more easily which makes the

listener more into the poem.

 

Rhyme

Definition: a word, syllable, or line that has

a word that has or ends with a sound that

corresponds to another word

Example:  Silver jet soars across the sky
                   Just like a giant butterfly

The words sky and butterfly are rhyming in this poem.

Significance:  This term is important to poetry because

it just makes it sound better when you read it out loud.

Rhyming makes poetry better because it makes it funner

to read when there is other words rhyming with each other.

Onomatopoeia ;) yeaaaaaa
 
Definition: a sound that associates with the name of the object

Example: Car Crash: "BOOM"

Significance: Onomatopoeia is important to poetry because it makes it
more understandable to the reader to know what sound the object makes
or so they know what i going on. Onomatopoeia makes poetry better because
it makes it more interesting to the reader.

Personification

Definition: adding human characteristics/traits to

something that is non-human.

Example: The bees played hide and seek

with the flowers

Significance: Personification is important to poetry

because it gives more excitement to the poem. Personification

makes poetry better because it makes non- human things kind of come to life.

Imagery



Definition: a visual description involving

your 5 senses.

Example:

Significance:  Imagery is important to poetry because

when it is written you can kind of interact with what the

poet is writing and you can use your senses while

reading

Simile :)

Definition: comparing things with like or as.

Example: I am as fast as a cheetah

Significance: This term  is important to poetry because

similes make the poetry more interesting. Simile

makes poetry better because it makes it funny and

more to think about what they are trying to say.