Missed Terms Flashcards
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of the words
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Consonance
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words
Caesura
A stop or pause in a metrical line often marked by punctuation or by grammatical boundary
Villanelle
-nineteen lines
-two repeating lines
- two refrains
- five tercets followed by a quatrain
-first and third line of the succeeding stanzas
- final stanza (the refrain) serves as two concluding lines
Apostrophe
A poetic phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work the subject may be dead absent an inanimate object or even an abstract idea