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23 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration |
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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Assonance |
the repetition of the sound of a vowel in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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Onomatopiea |
the formation of a word from a sounds associated with what is names (sizzle) |
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Eye Rhyme |
the similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation (love move)
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End Rhyme |
rhyming of words at the ends of lines of poetry |
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Internal Rhyme |
a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next |
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Slant Rhyme |
refers to words that almost rhyme
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End-stopped lines |
when a line of poetry ends with a period or definite puncuation mark |
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enjambment |
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line |
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perfect rhyme |
rhyme in which different consonants are followed by identical vowel and consonant sounds such as moon and June |
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rhyme scheme |
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
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free verse |
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
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couplet |
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit |
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sonnet |
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes typically ten syllables per line
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ballad |
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
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elegy |
a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead
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epic |
long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event
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ode |
a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter
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stanza |
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse |
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iamb |
a line of verse with five metrical feet, consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one lone (stressed) syllable. Two households, both alike in dignity |
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trochee |
a foot consisting of one lone or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable
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spondee |
a foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
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pyrrhic |
two short syllables |
