Symbol

Definition:
My definition of symbol would be "a picture or something that represents a thing or place."

Example:
The American Flag has
Colors that consists; red, white, and blue.
It represents where I came from.

Significance of the Term:
This word is important because symbols represent where you come from or possibly what your values are. It represents you.

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Onomatopoeia

Definition:
My definition of onomatopoeia would be "a word that makes the sound of something",

Example(s):
Vroooom, vroooom! (motorcycle)
Mooooo! (cow)
Ba-Ba-Ba-Bawk! (chicken)

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because you can stretch the imagery in their head and also get a sense of what we're trying to say in our  poem.

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Assonance

Definition:
My definition of assonance would be "the same vowel sounds with different constants".

Example:
"Now I know, that I had to borrow
Beg & steal & lie aint' cheap
Trying to keep you, trying to please you
Cause being in love with your face ain't cheap."
- Cee-Lo Green

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because we can use other words or find new words that rhyme with the vowel sounds.

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^ "Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
       And can't tell where to find them;
       Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
       And bring their tails behind them."

Alliteration

Definition:
My definition of alliteration would be "a line of words that have the same letter in the beginning".

Example:
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
- Mother Goose Rhymes

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because it can help people speak the words and they can practice pronouncing them.

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Meter

Definition:
My definition of meter would be "the unit of beats divded in a poem or song."

Example:
"Cali Cali Cali California
I won't forget that night,

The palm trees swinging above

One touch and I knew it was California love."

- Alyssa Bernal

Significance of the Term:

It's important to know this word because every poem has some kind of beat to it or most of them do. It wouldn't sound so good if the poem didn't have a beat. 

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Elegy

Definition:
My definition of elegy would be "an emotional, formal poem or song."


Example:
"Tell me which way the wind blows,
Where do the leaves go,
Cause my love for you hasn't changed.
Still left in confusion,
Where's our conclusion,
Cause my love for you hasn't changed."
- Bianca

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because if we put emotional words into our poem, people could feel our sadness and feel sympathetic or even empathetic and relate to their own issues.

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Couplet

Definition:
My definition of couplet would be "a couple of lines that rhyme or have the same length".

Example:
I really gotta go, no time to rhyme.
But if ya'll wanna know, I found myself a dime...
Yeah yeah, it didn't make sense.
But at least, I kept my tense....
(teehee)
- Darlene

Significance of the Term:
It's important to learn this word because it makes the poem more interesting to read (sorry if I already wrote this in another post). When words or some lines rhyme, it's easier to find a beat to the poem.

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Rhyme

Definition:
My definition of rhyme would be "to have a few words have the same ending sound."

Example:
(from There's a Wocket in my Pocket!)
"I like the Zable on the Table.
And the Ghair beneath the Chair.
But the Bofa on the Sofa acts
as if he doesn't care."
- Dr. Seuss.

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because when you rhyme in poems, it makes it sound more interesting to read. It'd be more creative if we knew many words that rhyme with each other.

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Rhythm

Definition:
My definition of rhythm would be "the way you sing or speak some words or dance to make it sound right; beat."

Example:
Boom Shaka Laka Laka
Boom Shaka Laka Laka
Boom Shaka Laka Laka

Signifiance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because you need to know how to read a poem with a rhythm. How your voice goes high and low when it's appropriate. If you don't know how to read a poem, it'd sound weird and off.

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Personification

Definition:
My definition of personification would be "making an object in the form of a person."

Example(s):
- My life came screeching to a halt.
- The moon winked at me through the clouds above.
- The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze.

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because bring something to life is making the object seem like it's real or what happening in the poem is real.

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Speaker

Definition:

My definition of speaker would be "a person who speaks to an audience."

Example:

"Family, friends, peers. We've gathered here today to attend the death of a very special person to us." -little chattering- "Though some of may not know him, please be respectful and shush." -chattering stops- "Thank you...."

Significance of the Term:

It's important for us to know this word because in poetry, usually the author is the speaker, the person telling the poem. For us to understand the speaker, we must re-read the poems and try to figure the message that is being sent. 

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Tone

Definition:
My definition of tone would be "how you express and show your voice through letters in bold or italics and words used."

Example:
"Honey, I understand it hurts."
"No you don't, mom. You DON'T know how my life works!"
"Well if you'd just give me a chance."
"Whatever. Go bother my brother, Lance."
- Darlene Nguyen

Significance of the Term:
It's important because when you put bold letters or italics or capital letters into a phrase, it expresses how you feel and shows your emotions so that the reader would sort of feel what you feel.

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Interpretation

Definition:
My definition of interpretation would be "showing or acting out something that shows it's meaning."

Example:
For a little skit in drama class
I acted out as my brother, Kass
Though my teacher noted I had too much sass
Never thought I'd be voted last....?
- Darlene Nguyen

Significance of the Term:
It's important for us to know this term because it'd show the reader how we visualize something when they thought of something else.

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Simile

Definition:
My definition of simile would be "a figure of speech when a person and an object is compared."

Example(s):
- Hot like a stove
- Cold as a ice
- Tough as a rock
- Shine like a star

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because when u use similes, it's like exaggerating something to make you have a better idea of it.

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Extended Metaphor

Definition:
My definition of the words extended metaphor would be "a metaphor stretched throughout a stanza or the whole poem."

Example:
Your touch magnetizing
Feels like I'm floating
Leaves my body glowing
They say be afraid
You're not like the others
Futuristic lover
Different DNA
They don't understand you.
- Katy Perry

Significance of the Term:
It's important for us to learn to extend our imagination so that when we write essays or short stories, we'd have many images in our heads to describe.

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Metaphor

Definition:
 My definition of metaphor would be "a word or statement used to imply an object or action that is not literal."

Example:
See the sunlight
We ain't stoppin;
Keep on dancing
Till the world ends
- Britney Spears


Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because using metaphors would make our poems more interesting to read and it'd help us have a picture in the reader's heads of what we're trying to say.

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Stanza

Definition:
My definition of stanza would be "a number of lines that is part of a poem in a short paragraph".

Example:
Last night you gave me a kiss
You didn't know it, but I was awake when you did
You were quiet, you were gonna let me sleep
So I just laid there pretending to be
- Rascal Flatts

Significance of the Term:
This term is important because poems are supposed to be written in a short amount of space within a few words. It shouldn't actually be like a story or a song. It's important for language arts because it shows us how to put words in an organized matter.

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Imagery

Definition:
My definition of imagery would be "a series of images that isn't meant to be real; imagination, non-realistic."

Example:

Trippin' out, spinnin' around.
I'm underground, I fell down.
Yeah, I fell down.
I'm freaking out so where am I now?
Upside down and I can't stop it now.
It can't stop me now.
- Avril Lavigne

Significance of the Term:
I would use this term term because imagery is kind of like an imagination. Imagination comes from what you're thinking in your head that making creative things and that's part of being original. It's a part of language arts because you're using your brain a lot and becoming more creative.

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Intro to Poetry

Definition:
My definition of poetry would be "the thoughts and feelings of someone, put together into a paragraph to show a message."

Example:
Don't lose who you are
In the blur of the start
Seeing is deceiving; dreaming is believing
It's okay not to be okay
- Jessie J



Significance of the Term:
We would use this because we all have thoughts and feelings, but some people don't know how to show it or the right way to show it. It's important for language arts because putting new vocabulary words would help us learn new words and the way everything is put together.

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