Poetry vocabs

12. Rhyme:

Definition: The sound that may similar to another sound.

Example: The frog jump onto the head of the dog.

Significance: When some word that have rhyme with another word will make the poem more interesting.

13. Couplet:

Definition: The couple lines of poem, same length and same rhyme.
Example: She's always there to listen if I'm ever feeling down.
               She's the woman I can turn for a smile, when I ever frown.
Significance: This kind of poem always has the same rhyme words at the end.

14. Elegy:

 Definition: Poem for someone just 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.Significance: This type of poem is sad and for people that already dead.
15. Meter

Definition: Structure of verse or poem.
Example:

• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• Tell me not in mournful numbers
• Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!

Significance: Meter is to bring tones to the poem.

16. Alliteration:

Definition: To repeat the first sound of the word.

Example: Lucky lies laughing like a loonatic.

Significance: Add tone and make the reader see it is more funny.