Extra Flashcards
The use of words that are harsh or dissonant
Cacophony
Speaker/writer directly address an absent person
Apostrophe
A type of comparison that draws parallel between dissimilar things
Conceit
Words that sound pleasant
Euphony
An artful deviation from literal speech
Figurative language
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words
Assonance
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
Caesura
2 parallel phrases clauses or sentences in which 2nd reverses the element of theist
Chiasmus
The repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants
Consonance
A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of 1st verse line and into the next with no punctuation
Enjambment
Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounce differently
Eye rhyme
Poetry with no set meter or rhyme
Free verse
Rhyme that occurs between words within a single Line of poetry
Internal rhyme
Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in immediate preceding consonant sounds
Perfect rhyme
A rhyme between 2 words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds
Slant rhyme
