Elegy

Definition : A sad poem that express the sorrowed 

Significance : To express the sadness to someone has died

Example : The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds:

Couplets

Definition : A pair of lines that is rhyme and it the same meter

Significance : Chinese people use couplets in New Year

Example : ...Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never write, nor no man ever loved.

Rhyme

Definition : The last syllable of each sentence are the same

Significance : It make readings poem fun 

Example :

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

Find out who or what was Humpty Dumpty

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

Rhythm

Definition : The beat of the poem

Significance : Rhythm make the poem like real

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.

Personification

Definition : A characteristic or a person that can describe other things

Significance : Characteristic can help the reader easy to understand

Example : When the cat look at me, I feel cold

Speaker

Definition : A person that read the poem

Significance : A speaker can make the audience easy to understand if the speaker speak with tone.

Example : A speaker need to know how to stop at a period or a comma.

Tone

Definition : a picture louder than a word

Significance : when reader read the poem, it feel like it read aloud

Example :

There's a patch of old snow in a corner,

That I should have guessed

Was a blow-away paper the rain

Had brought to rest.

 

It is specked with grime as if

Small print overspread it.

The news of a day I've forgotten --

If I ever read it.