English vocab

Question 1

Euphony/Euphonious

Answer 1

pleasing Sound (NOT harsh) ex: rain noises, baby sound machine

Question 2

Cacophony/cacophonous

Answer 2

HARSH sound (ex: gun shots)

Question 3

Alliteration

Answer 3

repetitive sound (ex: “Down with dope, up with hope!”)

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

repetition of vowel sound (ex: “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains”), not necessarily the same letters, in words that are close together.

Question 5

Consonance

Answer 5

repetition of a consonant sound, where the vowel sounds are different (ex: “pitter-patter)

Question 6

Enjambment/run

Answer 6

on lines, no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry (ex:I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills”)

Question 7

Rhyme

Answer 7

Repetition of a syllable (ex: “true” and “blue”, “rat” and “cat”

Question 8

End rhyme

Answer 8

last word or syllable of lines of poetry rhyme (ex: they spend time in the well”, “ but the maid is ringing a bell”

Question 9

Internal/middle rhyme

Answer 9

rhyme occurs mid-line (ex:I went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car, and it wasn’t far.
I had a cat who wore a hat. / He looked cool but felt the fool.)

Question 10

Perfect rhyme

Answer 10

the sound mimics exactly (ex: well, sell; chase, face; saw, flaw; form, dorm)

Question 11

Slant rhyme

Answer 11

words sound similar, but don’t mimic exactly (ex: Wake and wait)

Question 12

Eye rhyme

Answer 12

visually it should rhyme, but it doesn’t (ex: move and love, bough and though, come and home, and laughter and daughter)

Question 13

Monosyllabic rhyme

Answer 13

multiple syllables rhyme (ex: keeping, weeping, barter, smarter)

Question 14

Rhythm

Answer 14

recurrence of stresses and pauses (everyone does this daily when we talk)