Onomatopoeia

definition: imitation of a sound made my associatited with its regerent.

Examples: " boom"

                " bam"

                " pow"

                " wam"

Significance: Onomatopoeia is important in poetry because it helps the reader to hear the sounds of explotion or something like that. it make poetry better by adding sounds.

Meter

Definition: pattern of stress and unstressed in a stanza

Example: ....1.............. 2.................3..............4................ 5 

Shall.I..|..com.PARE..|..thee.TO..|..a.SUM..|..mer’s DAY?

Significance: it adds rhythm and creates a beat in the poem. it makes poetry better by helping the readers find the meaning of the poem.

rhyme

Definition: identity of some sound in some part, especially the end

Example:brain and gain. 
pledge and ledge. 
flower and power. 
mass and pass and glass and grass. 
game and lame. 
fame and shame. 
smirk and jerk. 
book and took. 

Significance: it adds some rhyme in the end of then poem. this makes poetry better by giving a poem a repetitive quality by sound without repeating a line or phrase in a poem

Rhythm

Definition: a pattern or irregular pulses

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: it adds patterns to the poem. it makes poetry better by adding some rhyme to the poem  .

Personification

Definition: representing something as a person.

Example: The bees played hine and seek with the flowers as they buzzed one to another.

Significance: personification is important because it describles things like a person. it adds human characteristics to the object.

Imagery

Definition: Ues  rhetorical images

Examples: Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.

Significance: imagery is important in a poem because it helps the reader to imagining pictures while reading the poem. it makes poetry better by adding some more details in the poem using pictures.

simile

Definition: We often use the words as...as and like with similes

Example: His skin was as cold as ice.
                 It felt as hard as rock.
                 She looked as gentle as a lamb.

Significance: Simile is an important pert of poetry because it makes descriptions more emphatic or vivid. it adds like or as.