Chapter 19 Rhythm Flashcards
Stress
An emphasis or accent placed on a syllable is speech. Clear pronunciation or polysyllabic words almost always friends on correct placement of their stress. (For instance, DE- sert and de- SERT are two different words and parts of speech, depending on this.) This is the basic principle of most English- language meter.
Accent
An emphasis or stress placed on a syllable in speech. Clear pronunciation of polysyllabic words almost always depends on correct placement of their accents (e. g., DE- sert and de- SERT are two different words and parts of speech, depending on this). This or speech stress is the basis of most meters in English.
Meter
A recurrent, regular, rhythmic latter in verse. When stresses recur at fixed intervals, the result is this. Traditionally, this has been the basic organizational device of world poetry. There are many exciting types of these, each identified by the different patterns of recurring sounds. In English most common meters involve the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Iambic Meter
A verse meter consisting of a specific recurring number of iambic feet per line.
Slack Syllables
A unstressed syllable of a line of verse.
Accentual Meter
A meter that uses a consistent number of strong speech stresses per line. The number of unstressed syllables may vary, as long as the accented syllables do not. Much pious at poetry, such as rap and nursery rhymes, is written in this.
Cesura/ Caesura
A pause within a line of verse. Traditionally, they appear near the middle of a line, but their placement may be varied to create expressive rhythmic effects. It will usually occurs at a mark of pronunciation, but there can be one of there even if no punctuation is present.
End- Stopped Line
A line of verse that ends in a full pause, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.
Run- On Line
A line of verse that does not end in punctuation, but carries on grammatically to the next line. Such lines are read aloud with a slight pause at the end. This is also called enjambment.
Prosody
The study of metrical structures in poetry.
Scansion
A practice used to describe ethnic patterns in a poem by separating the metrical feet, counting the syllables, marking the accents, and indicated the pauses. It can be very useful in analyzing the sound of a poem and how it should be read aloud.
Foot
The unit of measurement in metrical poetry. Different meters are identified by the pattern and order of stressed and unstressed syllables in their food, usually containing two or three syllables, with one syllable accented.
Iambic
A line made up primarily of iambs.
Iambs
A metrical foot in verse in which on unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one, as in “ca- ress” or “a cat” (U /). This is the most common meter used in English poetry.
Anapestic
A line made up primarily of anapests.
