Rhyme

Definition:

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.

Example:

The elven girl came outside and saw a star
It was very far
And it glowed like a firefly in a jar.

Significance:

The function of rhyme in poetry is to establish structure while creating a pleasant symmetry among a poem’s verses. 

Rhythm

Defintion:

Rhythm in a poem is the beat that the poem follows. A musical quality produced by the repetitionof stressed and unstressed syllabels.

Example:

Once upon a midnught dreary
as I pondered weak and weary.

Significance:

Rhythm in a poem is important because it provides the beat of the poem, which makes the poem sound good.

Onomonopia

Definition:
Onomonopia are words or phrases that imitate the sound of noise or action.

Example:
hiss, buzz, bang, pow, quack, murmur

Significance:
Onomonopia is important because it describes something quickly and specificly without have to describe it with many words. Also creates easy understand for readers.

Personification

Defintion:
Personification gives human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-human things.

Example:Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.
-"fear" and "faith" both had human traits in this sentence.

Significance:

Personification is important because it's easy for writers to describe something non-human and have the readers to understand their idea through imagining that it has similar qualities as them.

Imagery

Definition:
Literary text that describes something through our five senses:
Auditory-sound
Visual-sight
Olfacorty-smell
Gustatory- taste
Tactile- touch

Example:
"Yalimar dug her feet into the wet sand, burying her toes inside the beach as cold waves lapped at her ankles." This sentence has tactile imagery because you can feel the waves and the sand.

Significance:

Imagery is important because it's used throughout poetry. They help to create a "real" experience for the readers by using words that relates to their five senses.

Simile

Definition:
A metaphor that compares two differents things/ ideas by using "like" or "as".

Example:
"She is like a rose." compares a person with a rose; means that she pretty.

Significance:
Simile is important because it's often used in poetry. Readers can understand an idea by reading a simile that compares this idea to another one.

Repetition

Definition:

Words, phrase, lines, and/or ideas that gets repeated in a poem.

Example:

It's raining...
Raining all around.
It's raining puddles
On the ground.

Significance:

Repetition in a poem is important because it shows the topic of the poem by repeating it. 
Sometimes it can help to rhyme or set up the meter.