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Narrative- Poem that tells a story.

Example:

Thrice since my chin was bearded I suffered the tears to fall;
Benedict Arnold, the traitor, he was the cause of them all!
Once, when he carried Stillwater, proud of his valor, I cried;
Then, with my rage at his treason--with pity when André died.

Ballads- Poem about love, betrayal and dead.

Example:
And from the graves, where names were carved in
stone, came a mournful Ballad, of life gone by.

A Ballad sang by mothers, whose children left behind,
and left to sing their ballads, of tears that did remain.

Epic- Long narrative poem that have hero, love, quest and value of culture.

Example:
In the time of dreaming
Before the earth was old
Myths were in the making
Legends yet untold
Here began a story
Of one huge enormous frog
Solemn in his glory
He drank from every bog

Lyric- Poem that express personal emotions and feelings.

Example:
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

Sonnets- Poem that must has fourteen lines and follows one order of rhythm.

Example:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

Odes- Poem to thanks.

Example:
Ode To Cheese,
Which Makes Us Smile,
When Camera's go Clack.
Ode To Cheese,
Which make us taste,
The greatest of flavors, the wackiest of whack.

Elegies- Poem to remember the dead.

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.

Free verse- Poem that doesn’t need to have pattern, meter rhythm and rhyme.

Example:
My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.

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Lines

Definition: A sentence in the poem.

Example: The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

Significant: Different type of poem have different arrangement of lines.  

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Symbol

Definition: The use of something that represent something else.
Example: 

A dove was spread around,

The war was finally over,

In this tiny town

Significant: Symbol makes the reader think more about the poem.

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Onomatopoeia
 

Definition: Words that show the sounds.

Example: 

Kaboom!
Ka-blast
Way in the past
the miners mined for ore.

Significant: It could send the image right away with out thinking about it. 

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Assonance

 
Definition: Repetition of vowel that create rhythm within the phrase.

Example:   And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day

Significant: It create the rhyme so it will be more interested. 

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Alliteration

 
Definition: Repetition of sounds.

Example: 

Don't delay dawns disarming display .
Dusk demands daylight .
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight .
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance .

Significant: It makes it more interesting while trying to read the poem out loud. 

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Meter
 

Definition: The pattern stressed and unstressed syllables in the poem.

Example: A horse, A horse, my country for a horse.

Significant: It creates the rhythm to the poem so it will be more interesting to listen.

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Elegy
 

Definition: Poem to remember the dead.

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.

Significant: It help people to remember the dead easily.

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Couplet
 

Definition: A two lines stanza that usually rhyme.

Example:  

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never write, nor no man ever loved.

Significant: This help to get the idea across quickly.

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Rhyme

 
Definition: The use word that have similar sound to create beat to the poem.

Example:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Significant: It creates a little song so the poem will be more catchy.

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Rhythm

 
Definition: The rise and fall of the word that create beats to the poem.

Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

Significant: It helps to catch attention from the listener and it create beats so it will be more fun to read it. 

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Personification

 
Definition: To make non-human things do human actions.

Example: He is a pig.

Significant: It creates connections between the reader to the poem so that they will have a better understanding about the poem. 

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Speaker

Definition: The readers who bring emotion and feeling to the poem by the tone that he/her uses.

Example: 

He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,

A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;

They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh!

And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,

His pistol butts a-twinkle,

His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

Significant: Poem have to me read out loud so speakers is very important. He/her have to transfer the emotion and feeling from the poem to the listener through tone. 

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Tone

Definition: The high and low of amplitude and pitch from reading aloud the poem.

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.

Significant: The rise and fall of the tone creates the emotions and feelings that make the listener more enthusiastic.

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Interpretation

Definition: To understand the poem.

Example: The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas. => cloudy and creepy night.

Significant: It is an important part when you read the poem, it use to figure out metaphor, simile and personification. 

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Simile

Definition: To compare unlike things.
Example: The moon is like a giant golden coin on the night sky.

Significant: Readers will have a better image of what the poem look like so it will caught their attention. 

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Extended Metaphor

 
Definition: A metaphor that goes throughout the poem.

Example: 

My Captain does not answer, 

his lips are pale and still; 

My father does not feel my arm,

he has no pulse nor will;

The ship is anchored safe and sound, 

its voyage closed and done; 

From fearful trip, the victor ship,

comes in with object won;

Significant: This will make people think about the poem more because extended metaphor is hard to do interpretation 

 

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Metaphor

Definition: To resemble something else.

Example: 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Significant: Metaphor creates question in readers mind and they will keep trying to figure it out so it will get their focus easily. 

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Stanza

Definition: Division of a poem.

Example: 

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Significant: Breaking a poem into small parts help the readers to do interpretation.

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Imagery

Definition: The use of descriptive language to show a picture in the viewer’s head.
Example:    The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

Significant: By getting people to imagine how the poem like, it will be more effective and more fun to read.  

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Poetry

Definition:A type of art that transform emotion, thoughts, action and feelings into verse, it can be in rhythm.
Example:
Roses are red,
Violet are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so do you.

Significant: Poetry can come from anywhere, any place that creates emotions and feelings.

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