Meter

Definition:  The amount of syllables each line in poetry contains. If it has meter then it has the same amount of syllables in each line throughout the poem.

Example:  Trochee trips from long to short; 

           From long to long in solemn sort
     Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yea ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long

Significance:   Meter makes the poem looks in shape. The poem has the same syllables on each line, reader can read the poem more easier.

Rhyme

Definition:  A rhyme has the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of the lines.

Example:  Creak, squeak, bump in the night

          I wake up in such a fright

          I jump up to turn on the light!

Significance:  Rhymes help keep a beat and help make poems flow which makes listener more attentive to the poems. 

Rhythm

Definition:  Rhythm is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. Rhythm produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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: A movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent. In the poetry, rhythm broadly speaking. Rhythm gives the poem a distinct beat to a line. Also makes reader easy to read.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Onomatopoeia use words to imitate sounds. Such as “boom” “crash” “rip". All the sounds associated with the objects.

Example:  Boom!          When the food trays.
          Clap! Clap!          Goes the teacher.
          Rip!          Went the plastic bag.

Significance:  Use onomatopoeia can make poems more real and help readers or listeners “enter” the poem completely in the imagination.

Personification

Definition:  It makes a thing, idea, or an animal does something only humans can do. Represent things with human characteristics, easier for readers to relate things in real life.

Example: Snow speaks to the people
        It is falling above in the glooming sunlight             
          Its white sparkling voice
          Echoes as it falls through the air.
                         By Jake
 （snow cannot speak, only living things can speak) 

Significance: Poet use personification to make poems more interesting and convey a certain mood to readers.

Imagery

Definition:  Imagery involve person senses ( hear, smell, touch, taste, and sight). Use to represent objects, actions, and ideas. Showing a lot of scene to readers.

Example:  The sun's bloody rays

                peeked one last time
     ( it is easier to "see" the sunset, if the poem had imagery)
                

               

Significance:  Imagery let the poet can show the readers what he means instead of telling them. Use imagery can make the poem more real and connect readers' emotion.

Simile

Definition:  use "like" or "as" to compare two different things ( place, person...)

Example:  The rain falls like the sun,

                  Rising upon the mountain
                               (compare falling rain to the rising of the sun)

Significance:  Easier to know what the things look like. And make readers feel the message that the poet wanted to convey.