English 1102

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Rhyme

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“Standard rhyme consists of the repetition, in the rhyming words, of the last stressed vowel and of all the speech sounds following that vowel: late-fate; follow-hollow” (273).

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Eye-Rhymes

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two words are spelled similarly but pronounced differently and have come into general use An example is the pair slaughter and laughter,although they look similar, and should rhyme based on the visual aspect, when they are spoken there is no rhyming quality

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Alliteration

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“the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word” (8).

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Consonance

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“The repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowel: live-love, lean-alone, pitter-patter” (8).

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Assonance

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“The repetition of identical or similar vowels—especially in stressed syllables"
ex.Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled the middleman who didn't do diddily

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Free Verse

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“is sometimes referred to as 'open form' verse, or by the French term vers libre. Like traditional verse, it is printed in short lines instead of with the continuity of prose, but it differs from such verse by the fact that its rhythmic pattern is not organized into a regular metrical form—that is, into feet, or recurrent units of weak and strong stressed syllables. Most free verse also has irregular line lengths, and either lack rhyme or else uses it sporadically” (105).

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Blank Verse

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“consists of lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse) which are unrhymed—hence the term 'blank.' Of all English metrical forms it is closest to the natural rhythms of English speech, and at the same time flexible and adaptive to diverse levels of discourse” (24).

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Stanza

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“a grouping of verse-lines in a poem, often set off by a space in the printed text. Usually the stanzas of a given poem are marked by a recurrent pattern of rhyme and are also uniform in th enumber and lengths of the component lines” (294).

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Pun

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“a play on words that are either identical in sound (homonyms) or very similar in sound, but are sharply diverse in meaning” (253).

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Epithet

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For our purposes, this term “denotes an adjective or adjectival phrase used to define a distinctive quality of a person or thing; and example is John Keats's 'silver snarling trumpets' in The Eve of St. Agnes.”