Symbol

Def: an picture that stand for word.

Ex: Dove = peace
       Heart = love

Sign: It help reader know more about what you're trying to say.

Couplet

Def: pair of lines in of meter.

Ex: Love is

being happy for the other person
when they are happy
being sad for the person
when they are sad
being together in good times
and being together in bad times
Love is the source of strength

Love is
being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality

Sign: Couple sometimes make the reader confuse by it rhyme scheme.

Personalfication

Def: When the poet give a human characteristic to an object:

Ex: This computer is nut.

Sign: This figured of speech make the reader interested and make the action clearer.

Speaker

Def: the person who read out loud the poem to the other. It's not always the poet who read the poem.

Ex: I have read out loud Whitman poem to the whole class.

Sign: Speaker can spread the poet's poem to the whole other audience.

Tone

Def: mood of the poem

Ex:      Green frog,

• Is your body also
• freshly painted?

• Sick and feverish
• Glimpse of cherry blossoms
• Still shivering.
• This tone is Curious.

Sign: Mood of the poem make the poet to express his mood to his reader easier.

Extended metaphor

Def: it's a compared between 2 unlike things but extend in whole poem or stanza.

Ex: John is like a bomb/He is waiting to explode./The bomb is full of anger;/he has a short fuse./He may go off at any time.


Sign: This poetry device help the reader image the picture better. 

Stanza

Def: Stanza is make up of 2 or more lines in a poem. It have rhyme or rhythm in common.

Ex: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. 

Sign: stanza is separate by lines. Some stanza use to said one small topic in a whole large idea that the poet want send his/her reader.